# Recurring ideas 2/2

> Posts @visakanv quotes and reshares himself (4874 total), most-resurfaced first. Fields: times resurfaced · likes · date · theme.


- lemme post some drafts from my substack
  (resurfaced 3× · 38 likes · 2022-07-21 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1550122404764336128)
- @Malcolm_Ocean there are only 3 moves
  (resurfaced 3× · 38 likes · 2022-04-20 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1516689402642124801)
- Mimar Sinan was the chief architect of the Ottomans during the reigns of Suleiman, Selim II and Murad III. The son of a stonemason, he was a military engineer and commander... he lived for 97-100 years, dying in 1588. He's credited with being responsible for over 300 buildings
  (resurfaced 3× · 38 likes · 2021-03-03 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1367130018065752071)
- Zeus
  (resurfaced 3× · 38 likes · 2020-08-26 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1298512864110505985)
- "My well-intentioned instructions were being internalized by my students as methods of control that were compromising their natural abilities."  ^ This critical inner diaologue very different from no-mind quiet focus reported by top athletes
  (resurfaced 3× · 38 likes · 2017-12-17 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/942291057642954752)
- incidentally, did you know that the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia was originally constructed by King Suryavarman II of the Khmer empire, as a temple dedicated to lord Vishnu?  (i'm going to be spending a bunch of time exploring how hinduism made its way through southeast asia)
  (resurfaced 3× · 38 likes · 2019-09-08 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1170622301412286464)
- “But I hate myself why would I make more stuff”  Make more stuff so you can hate yourself more!!  “But I already hate myself to the limit”  You can always hate yourself more, push yourself I believe in u
  (resurfaced 3× · 38 likes · 2019-06-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142139198511579136)
- I saw an opportunity and I took it
  (resurfaced 3× · 38 likes · 2019-11-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1190208102794067968)
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  (resurfaced 3× · 38 likes · 2019-09-24 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1176477161743511552)
- What I have taught myself to do, as a nerdy marketing guy who is philosophy-curious, is to invent status and social capital out of seemingly thin air.  It can look like magic, but it’s just dumpster diving, like selling bargain-bin clothes at a markup on eBay, Girlboss style
  (resurfaced 3× · 38 likes · 2019-03-09 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1104385498343067649)
- it is natural to dance https://x.com/BreckenFowler/status/1097223845772029952
  (resurfaced 3× · 38 likes · 2019-02-18 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1097389628816949250)
- 1. find someone you can fight well with and laugh together afterwards. marry them for life. having a high-functioning life partner that you have a deep psychological intimacy with is like deadlifting for the psyche. my heart is swole because my wife is a total soul gangsta
  (resurfaced 3× · 38 likes · 2019-01-12 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084064530601107456)
- 55. they actually agree
  (resurfaced 3× · 37 likes · 2023-12-05 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1732044619414950383)
- periodic reminder that my youtube channel has one of the best comments sections around and is a great place for thoughtful people to hang out
  (resurfaced 3× · 37 likes · 2021-02-22 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1363999778002984969)
- Tech, media, and politics, all run by jabronis each claiming to be doing what is best for everyone
  (resurfaced 3× · 37 likes · 2021-04-11 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1381213507706753031)
- wow I can even mouseover a tweet and see what the tweet is. this is amazing
  (resurfaced 3× · 37 likes · 2020-05-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1265199628120547329)
- everything is a remix  you do not have to settle for your inherited mix  you get to speed it up, or slow it down  inhale, exhale  zoom in, zoom out  you do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around  that’s what it’s all about
  (resurfaced 3× · 37 likes · 2019-09-08 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1170573196929617921)
- Had tea with the very charming and infectiously positive @juliagalef - we talked about relationships, social norms, rationality in practice, optimising vs satisficing, managing conflicts, using Twitter well, vulnerability, asking good questions and having great conversations
  (resurfaced 3× · 37 likes · 2019-05-06 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1125491616817471489)
- It’s interesting to rewatch Rurouni Kenshin in 2019. I last watched it around 2005 or so  Kenshin’s worldview clearly is one of the things that made an impression on me, and is part of the lattice structure that keeps me from turning into a selfish sociopath
  (resurfaced 3× · 37 likes · 2019-02-03 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091983703138480131)
- random pic of singaporean school kids from google  you see that big brown kid  I bet you he gets singled out for doing things everyone else does  I don't know him, but I know what it's like to be him  it's not fun
  (resurfaced 3× · 37 likes · 2018-09-25 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044544751511302144)
- If it didn’t sound so pretentious, “people who appreciate the intersubjectivity of things” is actually a great filter to find great company. These are people who aren’t too quick to make up their minds, yet aren’t so uncertain as to not have any opinions of their own. I love them
  (resurfaced 3× · 37 likes · 2018-11-20 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064742278286036992)
- Generally, it's socially acceptable to say "I hate X" when X has demonstrable power over you. "I hate my boss" generally goes over better than "I hate my employee", "I hate my dad" is generally more acceptable than "I hate my child" https://x.com/visakanv/status/1003196286609182721
  (resurfaced 3× · 37 likes · 2018-06-03 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1003197129836249088)
- 69. Nice
  (resurfaced 3× · 36 likes · 2021-04-30 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1388075944401903617)
- @SeanMombo when I was a kid, I had access to material written by extremely successful and fully-actualized beings who were powerfully resonant with their values  while this was great, I hungered for something else: I wanted to hear from someone who was just a little further along my path
  (resurfaced 3× · 36 likes · 2020-12-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1339206684271493120)
- I’m 29 but I think I’m spiritually more Zoomer than Millennial. I’m like an Elder Zoomer https://x.com/moorehn/status/1155390442692907008
  (resurfaced 3× · 36 likes · 2019-08-13 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1161313846671237120)
- "Imperial Pomp" – pictures of post-USSR architecture taken by @FrankHerfort – there are some interesting juxtapositions here, lots of pride and ambition but also a certain scarcity and deprivation. Some DPRK vibes but with a touch of that more luxurious Russian extravagance
  (resurfaced 3× · 36 likes · 2018-09-30 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046390619579412483)
- oh wow – I remember having a beer with a friend in 2010, excited about the future, saying exactly this – that one day you would be able to go on google maps and rewind to the past, and see how the world was, and do a street-view walk-around a mockup of ancient rome https://x.com/simongerman600/status/1008303331859722240
  (resurfaced 3× · 36 likes · 2019-01-08 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082556286955282432)
- Finally watching Alien - one of those films you accumulate all sorts of background info about even without watching it, because it has such a big role in popular culture
  (resurfaced 3× · 36 likes · 2018-11-12 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1062000071347122176)
- @s_r_constantin yea like a product that does less can be a better product!
  (resurfaced 3× · 35 likes · 2023-11-20 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1726466340352110994)
- thought I’d capture a bit of footage to look at next time. from ages 10 to 21, this was the bus interchange I used the most, and spent the most time at. it’s deeply intertwined with many of my memories. It features in my dreams sometimes.
  (resurfaced 3× · 35 likes · 2021-08-13 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1426137508480372738)
- @QiaochuYuan @CurziRose @Meaningness here's two ways of looking at it
  (resurfaced 3× · 35 likes · 2022-01-08 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1479618772491145219)
- it occurs to me that a significant amount of inputs for my model of sensual masculinity were drawn from video game characters
  (resurfaced 3× · 35 likes · 2021-06-10 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1403085340169015297)
- The Book of Five Rings was a text on swordsmanship written by Miyamoto Musashi in the 1640s- about a decade before coffeehouses become popular in Europe, and Istanbul overtakes Beijing to become the largest city in the world. The Dutch VOC is happily underway and EIC is to follow
  (resurfaced 3× · 35 likes · 2019-11-27 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1199554621083017216)
- I always giggle at how in 1963 there was a solemn, formal declaration that “Singapore will forever be a part of Malaysia” and then in 1965 there was another one that was like “wait nah nvm”
  (resurfaced 3× · 35 likes · 2020-06-23 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1275340919143727104)
- the human body:
  (resurfaced 3× · 35 likes · 2020-01-26 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1221463098491424768)
- But I can’t be *too* mad about it because that would be me missing the plot too, you see what I mean?  It’s a little lonely inhabiting this space because very people really get it all the way through  but the joke *there* is,  That’s my secret, Captain - I’m always lonely 😂
  (resurfaced 3× · 35 likes · 2019-03-21 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108798998083567616)
- 1853: Elisha Otis does a live demonstration in NYC's largest convention centre. He builds an open elevator platform, gets an assistant to hoist him 3 stories up, then slashes the rope suspending the elevator. Audience gasps, safety brakes engage.  the ultimate elevator pitch 😂
  (resurfaced 3× · 35 likes · 2018-08-25 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1033318594984046594)
- X-Men: First Class also did this very well.  Don’t take this too literally: the point is that all conflict is ultimately a conflict of perspective, & simply killing or capturing the bad guy doesn’t actually resolve the conflict. You as the storyteller have to actively present it
  (resurfaced 3× · 34 likes · 2019-09-22 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1175890175471153152)
- MONDAY: mōndæg, contraction of "mōnandæg" — literally "day of the moon."
  (resurfaced 3× · 34 likes · 2020-01-12 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1216441805064916993)
- Violence and abuse megathread https://x.com/rosesbythstairs/status/1026654704879558658
  (resurfaced 3× · 34 likes · 2018-08-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1027124055319633920)
- The influence of Hinduism on Thai culture is fascinating to me. The Thais have their own version of the Ramayana called the Ramakien  In 1989, Indian poet Satya Vrat Shastri translated the Ramakien into Sanskrit  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakien
  (resurfaced 3× · 34 likes · 2019-12-17 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1207068626924142593)
- I am one of the most prolific writer-conversationalists I personally know. Actually, the most. I don't personally know anybody who writes-talks more than I do.  A consequence of this: I am VERY (painfully) aware of the limitations of talking-writing as a tool of persuasion
  (resurfaced 3× · 34 likes · 2017-12-09 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/939549784897024000)
- there's a self-reinforcing effect where boring, stale aesthetics becomes more so. started thinking about this in the context of male fashion (most guys dress bland -> most accessible options available become bland -> most guys dress bland) but I realize it applies to a lot more
  (resurfaced 3× · 34 likes · 2019-09-28 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1177863168913096705)
- What I have an issue with is the glib, flippant, sanctimonious attitude many Singaporeans have towards the death penalty. There is a moral posturing that happens that’s outright medieval. If someone gets arrested for drugs, we get “hang him!!!” in the comments. What the fuck
  (resurfaced 3× · 34 likes · 2018-07-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015858758453420032)
- Sup Visa-28, Visa-31 here with an update  Stage 4: use higher-quality unpaid work to build an audience (patreon) + assets you can sell (ebooks)  Stage 5: you now make money in your sleep. congratulations!!  Stage 6: use the $ from (5) to pay + encourage other people to do (1)
  (resurfaced 3× · 33 likes · 2021-10-13 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1448293895226286081)
- @daemonhugger if you pursue any practical interest deeply enough you're eventually forced to confront philosophy
  (resurfaced 3× · 33 likes · 2022-01-29 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1487502404849647617)
- Received the most gorgeous book in the mail courtesy of @Ol_Wall it looks like something I wish I had written 🥲🥲🥲
  (resurfaced 3× · 33 likes · 2021-12-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1475659097072537600)
- simple + clear thinking is robust construction material. you can build much bigger and more powerful lattices from it. you can interface with other people's thinking more easily.  it takes a bit of extra effort at the start, but the upside over the long-term is tremendous
  (resurfaced 3× · 33 likes · 2020-06-10 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1270704494624428033)
- thought I'd just watch this for a minute and I'm completely drawn in. I love how Rajiv earnestly talks about the details of everything without being the slightest bit snooty about it, very nourishing homely vibes https://x.com/iOMEL2_0/status/1419281069283581954
  (resurfaced 3× · 33 likes · 2021-07-25 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1419284114478309380)
- @economeager you are now subscribed to Singapore Otter News
  (resurfaced 3× · 33 likes · 2020-07-30 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1288840290078351360)
- I was at my most DFW I was depressed, 2007 and 2015. It’s clear DFW struggled with his brain chemistry. IMO he had a similar issue as JBP - they’re both too solemn in an absurd universe. The answer to this for eg is “lol you can’t, that’s the joke! 😂” https://x.com/njjjjrh/status/1253595083590393858?s=21 https://x.com/njjjjrh/status/1253595083590393858
  (resurfaced 3× · 33 likes · 2020-04-24 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1253598741354835968)
- watching the @fortelabs / @Conaw video and was reminded of this bit from lewis thomas's lives of a cell. he wrote this in the 70s!! "huge interliving coral shoals of thought"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw2kJF_kxjE&feature=emb_logo
  (resurfaced 3× · 33 likes · 2019-12-15 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1206257555481083904)
- Children’s fashion is legitimately great, I would wear both of these outfits too
  (resurfaced 3× · 33 likes · 2019-11-03 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1190974289035456512)
- I need a whole damn series about the procrastinating witch queen from Oglaf https://www.oglaf.com/reflections/
  (resurfaced 3× · 33 likes · 2019-03-14 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106078581799608321)
- Before Instagram, it seems like fashion was somewhat optional. Things didn’t even have to fit, people just saw the vague idea you were going for, and they were like, oh yea, sure. Teenage girls in 2019 are better at fashion AND makeup AND photography than the whole industry then
  (resurfaced 3× · 33 likes · 2019-07-20 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1152453176265773057)
- I hope millennials can be kinder (not necessarily “nicer”, which can be a form of unkindness) to the following generation than any previous generation has ever been to its successor. It’s a lot to ask but I hope we can do it
  (resurfaced 3× · 33 likes · 2018-06-24 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1010768394696601600)
- I do feel younger and more playful, like at some level at 31 I feel more 9-year-old energy than I did throughout my stiff 20s
  (resurfaced 3× · 32 likes · 2021-11-10 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1458243308782686212)
- @selentelechia baby moonbot: fuk u mum  moon mum: well,,, i can see why you would feel this way  baby moonbot: ??? you're supposed to get mad back  moon mum: "supposed to"? ur not the boss of me  baby moonbot: why cant i have normal parents
  (resurfaced 3× · 32 likes · 2020-09-21 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1307927263116058624)
- once you get the vibe ~ right, then it’s all about good reply game. being supportive + nourishing in a non-needy way with no expectations, just the understanding that some people notice + appreciate little positive gestures. Then it’s a numbers game. People will even refer you
  (resurfaced 3× · 32 likes · 2019-09-30 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1178663091170508800)
- Each tweet can function as a setup or a punchline for your other tweets (and for other people’s tweets)
  (resurfaced 3× · 32 likes · 2019-01-29 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090387852104355840)
- Frank tells a really fascinating story about his car in 1961 and how cost-benefit analysis (from both the consumer and manufacturer POVs) explains how features like car heaters and V8 engines have come and gone. This feels like analytical genius (with benefit of hindsight ofc)
  (resurfaced 3× · 32 likes · 2018-08-25 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1033351462863089670)
- So I finally watched Crazy Rich Asians and I actually really enjoyed it + recommend everyone else go watch it too. I think the heart of the movie is really Michelle Yeoh’s portrayal of Eleanor Young, which is unlike anything you typically see in a Hollywood film
  (resurfaced 3× · 32 likes · 2018-09-05 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1037321011891322880)
- GET WELL MICHAEL JACKSON
  (resurfaced 3× · 32 likes · 2009-06-25 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/2332697851)
- @0x49fa98 @sonyasupposedly @grantadever this got me thinking about zizek's robot sex story, and thinking of a fantasy where all of our Accounts can do all the Discourse, and maybe then we can just hang out in a bar and shoot the shit about tv shows or whatever. it's a sweet fantasy
  (resurfaced 3× · 31 likes · 2020-10-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1312416221514461185)
- crossroads thread https://x.com/visakanv/status/1147983907444293632
  (resurfaced 3× · 31 likes · 2021-09-12 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1437124595950112770)
- suez canal blocked tweet
  (resurfaced 3× · 31 likes · 2021-03-24 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1374596104755441664)
- It’s a good question  My personal approach to thinking about community is to think in terms of behaviors  What actions are celebrated, encouraged and incentivized in this community?  What actions are discouraged?  How are these incentives and disincentives applied? https://x.com/davidspinks/status/1196540011786563585
  (resurfaced 3× · 31 likes · 2019-11-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1196603715001540608)
- Having steaks with @amasad, @HayaOdeh, @nicklovescode, @FriendDefault and other new friends at @replit’s office - lots of love and laughter and deliciousness!!! Truly hashtag #blessed #SomebodyFeedVisa
  (resurfaced 3× · 31 likes · 2019-05-04 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1124504255228825600)
- bus windows on rainy nights are a substantial part of my soul-landscape – if I ever made a film, I'd be featured quite prominently. that sense of being inside-and-outside, your window-to-the-world being blurry and 'bleeding', a vivid 360 degree movie of melting reality
  (resurfaced 3× · 31 likes · 2018-09-19 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042450050037604354)
- it's really quite funny how the common theme in a lot of my thoughts and works seems to converge on something like "people are like, you know, people". could write a book that's like  chapter 1: celebs are people chapter 2: women are people chapter 3: the outgroup are people
  (resurfaced 3× · 31 likes · 2018-10-17 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052493779863621633)
- i wanna share a funny story I remember about the best striker on my secondary school's football team, who iirc was kind of a chubby dude who hardly showed up for training and smoked cigarettes etc. this was so long ago i might be making this up but its good bear with me lol
  (resurfaced 3× · 30 likes · 2023-01-15 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1614659291037962241)
- Something I drew on the whiteboard once while talking to my wife about wiggles, prickles, goo, vibration, meditation, resonance
  (resurfaced 3× · 30 likes · 2018-03-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/978934613983707137)
- @utotranslucence good question - it’s easy to just be a nuisance (vandalism), the challenge is to create something that people agree adds rather than subtracts (eg street art). To do this you functionally kinda have to understand people better than they understand themselves (or can articulate)
  (resurfaced 3× · 30 likes · 2019-04-19 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1119076360750714882)
- 30. Hans Zimmer – Why Do We Fall? [2012]
  (resurfaced 3× · 30 likes · 2019-01-21 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087338187456864257)
- So here's the pattern I'm seeing  person: *being obnoxious, belligerent*  me: I'm sure you had no intention of being this unnecessarily rude. Are you okay?  person: *ignores this out*  [moments later]  person: *new instance of being needlessly dickish*  me: alright! byeeee~ 👋🏾😘
  (resurfaced 3× · 30 likes · 2019-02-07 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093505167171829760)
- An interesting thing @guanyinmiao pointed out to me recently is that reporters who stick to a beat over time develop a deep understanding of history and context, and so they can pull out all these interesting and insightful bits that even smarter writers will not be able to
  (resurfaced 3× · 30 likes · 2018-11-06 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1059882647357317120)
- Gaming youtube thread
  (resurfaced 3× · 30 likes · 2018-08-05 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026113139912241152)
- The burden of maintaining ethnic/cultural identity falls disproportionately on women and girls 🤔
  (resurfaced 3× · 30 likes · 2018-09-01 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035747765354094592)
- In a way the punishment for suicide seems to me awfully similar to the warrior’s punishment for desertion. It’s seen by many as an abdication of moral responsibility, an insult to the community, and/or to God or creation. These are some touchy matters that are hard to talk about
  (resurfaced 3× · 30 likes · 2018-05-09 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994015423724060672)
- Guy: "I feel like I have to be more manly around (my girlfriend)."  Author: "Sounds like fragile masculinity to us."  TRP is right when they say that men have to be automatically good at being men. Express uncertainty about *that* and you're a lesser man  https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/relationships/a13026060/bromance-male-friendship/
  (resurfaced 3× · 30 likes · 2018-05-14 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/995867867114491905)
- @reddy2go this is why I argue they should dispense with the pretense of seriousness, and every nation should send their best comedians and clowns. although, you might argue, they already do
  (resurfaced 3× · 29 likes · 2021-10-12 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1447749695925747712)
- me: a little more freedom would be good actually  bad actor: wonderful! here is how I would use this additional freedom for nefarious purposes!  me:
  (resurfaced 3× · 29 likes · 2021-07-09 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1413313056117981191)
- Underneath my shabby disguise of “friendly internet nerd” is a deep chasm of
  (resurfaced 3× · 29 likes · 2019-03-16 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106834100671832064)
- get in losers, we're going shopping... for outgroup friends
  (resurfaced 3× · 29 likes · 2019-02-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093812740924141569)
- The most significant thing about 2010 for me was actually a Facebook group I created called \(n_n)/. Sort of an early instantiation of “Visa assembling a group of friendly nerds”. We had our own cult gesture and everything. 😂 learnt a lot about community management
  (resurfaced 3× · 29 likes · 2020-01-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1212326199130611712)
- “I’m the real victim here” - every narcissist ever
  (resurfaced 3× · 29 likes · 2019-01-21 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087287182186840064)
- Since Aaron is gone, it's up to the rest of us to embody his principles. Be curious and kind. Help others.  "What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? and if you're not working on that, why aren't you?"  RIP, Aaron. Our work is never over. https://x.com/beadmomsw/status/1060539815215726593
  (resurfaced 3× · 29 likes · 2018-11-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061656804558430208)
- Twitter's "2:20" video limit is an interesting frame size  if you've never been interested in metal, here's something that I think is a great introduction to how it can be great – and very *musical*, lots of interesting melodies and rhythms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9FyLsfDzw&list=RDMH9FyLsfDzw&start_radio=1
  (resurfaced 3× · 29 likes · 2018-12-26 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1077752224464330752)
- The phrase “secret handshake” is on my mind since I used it yesterday, and I find myself thinking about it this morning in relation to conversations about gender, race and power  One of the most powerful social skills is the ability to communicate secrets openly in plain-sight https://x.com/visakanv/status/1010018882596114432
  (resurfaced 3× · 29 likes · 2018-06-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1010371391235899392)
- There are these spaces around a school that function as a sort of extended social space. It’s not school, but it’s near enough that you’ll encounter groups from school. The food places, playgrounds, libraries... “where kids hang out after school” is an essay I’d love to read
  (resurfaced 3× · 29 likes · 2018-07-30 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1023829827751534597)
- If you use an anonymous account that doesn’t have your name or face attached to it, you already intuitively understand the value of a safe space
  (resurfaced 3× · 29 likes · 2018-05-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/996925687712776193)
- the CEO of Shopify, @Tobi, had an interesting adjacent riff on this in a 2013 talk. Shopify had about maybe 50,000 users then? Today they have over 800,000 users, and their stock has 10x'd since they IPO'd. I think he knows what he's talking about  https://t.co/SHotHc7ORW
  (resurfaced 3× · 28 likes · 2019-09-26 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1177128286628921345)
- @vgr 1. sincere curiosity  2. willingness to talk openly about personal experiences  3. personal website + public-facing body of work  4. intellectual honesty & humility – people who freely, openly acknowledge that they were wrong about something  5. kindness  https://x.com/amrith/status/1176489553978257409
  (resurfaced 3× · 28 likes · 2019-09-24 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1176498090691284994)
- My boss was the single most powerful catalyst for my personal development for half a decade. He helped me become more thoughtful, empathetic, precise, focused, effective. It was like having a coach and therapist... who paid *me*. Most people I tell this to think it’s insane https://x.com/coelasquid/status/1017466859602337792
  (resurfaced 3× · 28 likes · 2018-07-12 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017472767153692672)
- A big part of this is because I often feel like functioning in normal human society requires more effort for me than for other people
  (resurfaced 3× · 28 likes · 2017-05-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/866496631025188864)
- libertarianism is cool in theory but in practice it's basically a secular megachurch for rationalbros
  (resurfaced 3× · 28 likes · 2018-09-13 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1040250669905526784)
- Rewatching The Martian - such a magnificent love letter to the most beautiful, resourceful, tenacious things about humanity
  (resurfaced 3× · 28 likes · 2018-08-06 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026424080717627393)
- the more I think about it the more I think that the @WWE is the leading model for understanding modern social reality. I’d love to hear all sorts of philosophical takes on it – mcluhan, baudrillard, etc  modern reality isn't reality, modern reality is a TV show ABOUT reality
  (resurfaced 3× · 28 likes · 2018-01-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/954246111908134912)
- ok found a more convincing shot... and another  you see how putting in the slightest amount of effort lets you "create knowledge"? these pics already existed, yet the quora answer had to go with "look at him holding a microphone"
  (resurfaced 3× · 27 likes · 2021-04-01 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1377551337693454337)
- thinking about what you get out of doing all the hundreds of things  what you really get imo is a sensitivity to the “weak points”  y’know, like in video games - if you know where exactly to put the bullets or arrows, you need much fewer of them, and look like a goddam wizard
  (resurfaced 3× · 27 likes · 2020-04-05 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1246706851669925888)
- 35. The Matrix [1999] – lobby shootout scene, just iconic
  (resurfaced 3× · 27 likes · 2019-01-21 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087348011393404928)
- ok fine my feelings are wrong, thanks everybody
  (resurfaced 3× · 27 likes · 2019-09-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1177476052848762880)
- I want to be an explosion of color and light. Fumbling around for the detonator
  (resurfaced 3× · 27 likes · 2019-09-12 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1172038417984569344)
- Koreans seriously went to Paris to tell Parisians "Hi, we are from Korea and we're gonna sell you Paris Baguette" and Parisians are like "...que, c'est bien, pourquoi pas?"  In SG they're like "anyong haseyo, here is korean NYC food!" and we're like "ok la why not hor"  powerful
  (resurfaced 3× · 27 likes · 2019-05-29 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133569278832021505)
- the first principle is that you must entertain yourself, and you are the hardest person to entertain
  (resurfaced 3× · 27 likes · 2019-01-10 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083208444222484482)
- DDLJ [1995]
  (resurfaced 3× · 27 likes · 2019-01-26 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089150279847538689)
- Amazing that vgr has almost 20k followers and only 3 of them retweeted one of the best, revealing and clear compressions I’ve ever seen of a complex, interesting idea. Like Joshua Bell playing a Stradivarius on the subway platform https://x.com/vgr/status/1027604793101959168
  (resurfaced 3× · 27 likes · 2018-10-12 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1050775630285926400)
- 7. let’s do a thread “about media”. there’s tonnes to say but let’s see what happens if I just freestyle. What do we know? For starters, media (text, audio, video) is a very recent phenomenon from a historical perspective, and in many ways we are struggling with its effects https://x.com/visakanv/status/1756330155637694476
  (resurfaced 3× · 26 likes · 2024-02-24 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1761416448512303139)
- you can learn this stuff from video game stories. you start by doing the small sidequests. Aloy was a literal Outcast, but she saved a boy's life, and so she earned his loyalty and respect. she basically repeats this for like a dozen other people and bootstraps her own gang
  (resurfaced 3× · 26 likes · 2021-02-21 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1363596668667449347)
- Was wandering along the streets afterwards (and accidentally found myself in rich-peoples-ville, which is maybe a story for another thread) - and then I found myself here. I felt compelled, stepped in hesitantly, and was welcomed warmly. A beautiful, tender, precious, holy space
  (resurfaced 3× · 26 likes · 2019-05-07 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1125908622263762944)
- There's this fucking annoying thing that rationalbros do where they accuse you of "baiting" them when you ask them genuine questions that reveal the shallowness of their thinking.  Which in turn is quite revealing of their "gotcha" model of the world. Blatant sophistry
  (resurfaced 3× · 26 likes · 2017-11-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/933149967136391168)
- scrolling through my year's Facebook and re-discovered this great 1966 LKY speech to Singapore's school principals.  I think of LKY the way I think of Steve Jobs – both simultaneously overrated and underrated, depending on what people focus on  source: https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/lky19660829.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2DkX7Rk8RfTSsECKmSNaQw_VnUXv38wXnbG6rHzZNfHIagOrC174rmpEs
  (resurfaced 3× · 26 likes · 2018-12-31 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1079718188819001344)
- @sharanvkaur me reading tweets from haters:
  (resurfaced 3× · 25 likes · 2020-12-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1343183550514753539)
- 3. Neil Tyson's criticism of Richard Dawkins: "Being an educator is not only getting the truth right, but there's got to be an act of persuasion in there as well... Here are the facts, and here is a sensitivity to your state of mind. It's facts + sensitivity that creates impact."
  (resurfaced 3× · 25 likes · 2021-01-05 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1346478341763653635)
- the network is its own reward – I don't want to presume what will come out of it, bc the best things that come out of it happen by accident, peripherally.  eg: a Phd student starting a battery company bc of someone he met through me  I want to 1000x this  https://x.com/QuantumSeany/status/1316650232810278913
  (resurfaced 3× · 25 likes · 2020-10-15 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1316654064185176064)
- I used to feel slightly annoyed when I'd hear Indian uncles say "cyber" instead of zero. Now I realize actually they were right all along. Even etymology nerds haven't caught up to this. cyberspace is 0-space  https://x.com/vgr/status/448795164509622272
  (resurfaced 3× · 25 likes · 2020-06-01 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1267425082541871106)
- A thread of screenshotted tweets that I personally think merit blocking. I'll blank out the names and handles to minimize the odds of dogpiling or cycles of abuse. The point here is to highlight the _behavior_ that I find unacceptable. (This should be fun!)
  (resurfaced 3× · 25 likes · 2018-06-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1004574837396738050)
- do what *you* think is excellent  do what brings *you* joy  do what makes *your* heart sing  "but- the world needs-"  all the world needs is people who have come alive  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1353225221533093888
  (resurfaced 3× · 24 likes · 2021-02-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1361664873650741259)
- when I think of God Of War, I think of this scene – Kratos learning to be tender with his son. It's especially powerful because Kratos had a shitty, abusive, violent dad (Zeus), and until now has mostly used his (extremely powerful) hands to murder and destroy. Hands, man
  (resurfaced 3× · 24 likes · 2019-04-16 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1118072091977191424)
- "a mecca for the modern-minded"  eventually Gertrude couldn't afford Picasso's paintings  "She was often charged with being a cult-writer, supported by an influential and fashionable coterie of friends"  https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/03/specials/stein-salon.html
  (resurfaced 3× · 23 likes · 2021-02-25 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1364913360509177860)
- @Coscorrodrift @liminal_warmth @BillSeitz you can find clues in the words people use for curious people  busybody meddler mischief-maker troublemaker snoop nosy parker gawker snoop pryer eccentric weirdo geek nerd  if you go back in history it’s medicine men, shaman, oracles, mystics – powerful, scary, dangerous
  (resurfaced 3× · 23 likes · 2021-09-23 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1440830599296520200)
- cute/sweet exchange between Wells and Chesterton  Wells: if there is a God I hope he'll let me into heaven because I am your friend  GKC: my dear HG, if there is a heaven, you will be welcome to it- and not for being my friend, but for being a friend to all men  😭❤️
  (resurfaced 3× · 23 likes · 2021-01-09 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347925507153616898)
- Before / after  Seriously this used to take me over an hour and I still wouldn’t get to R level of alertness  I haven’t even made it through half my coffee. Might eventually skip the coffee entirely
  (resurfaced 3× · 23 likes · 2020-01-27 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1221652619254321154)
- watching shitty videos of myself singing and playing guitar 4-5 years ago and feeling a lot of love for my younger self. <3 this kid
  (resurfaced 3× · 23 likes · 2017-05-31 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/869974266439122944)
- 6. So- the history of humanity is the history of violence, war, rape, trauma, fear, anxiety. What I’m inching up to is the idea that the brokenness of our planet’s men & boys is *civilizational*. It’s primordial; it’s so everywhere that people don’t see it https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061972391742517249?s=21
  (resurfaced 3× · 23 likes · 2019-01-07 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082421955850977280)
- A love letter to the stories that move us  (From Wrestling Isn't Wrestling)
  (resurfaced 3× · 23 likes · 2018-11-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066287666201645056)
- Finally watching Jaws. I’ve put it off forever because it just seemed so... old-fashioned? But it’s so well-made and there’s so much love put into it, it’s really drawing me in https://x.com/moniza_hossain/status/1031104201768591360
  (resurfaced 3× · 23 likes · 2018-08-30 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035075725122883584)
- Starting on Red Dead Redemption II
  (resurfaced 3× · 23 likes · 2018-11-07 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1060175601158389762)
- btw a common joke in Singapore (I don't know if it's universal) – if a dude does something uncommonly romantic or thoughtful, a common response from other dudes is "wah, spoil market leh". It's a joke, yes, and jokes serve a social purpose + sustain a social order
  (resurfaced 3× · 23 likes · 2018-10-03 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1047374637850456064)
- Dante (c. 1265 – 1321)
  (resurfaced 3× · 22 likes · 2021-09-27 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1442418179423096843)
- also TIL the hanging gardens "of babylon" were not actually in babylon, but in nineveh
  (resurfaced 3× · 22 likes · 2021-08-31 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1432802230793474052)
- Woke up in the middle of the night. Did some brainstorming. I love whiteboards. Going back to bed.
  (resurfaced 3× · 22 likes · 2016-06-16 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/743553303435427841)
- Watching John Wick 2, watched the first a few months ago. It’s such an interesting... fetishization? Dramatic action? I’m enjoying the spectacle, but it’s the social rules of this fictional universe that’s really, hmm. I don’t know what I think yet
  (resurfaced 3× · 22 likes · 2020-09-03 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1301317485925335043)
- 007:  My first video essay!! Some part of me thought I would *never* do this, that I don't have the skills, don't know how video editors work. Take that, limiting self-beliefs! I'm a YouTuber now!!  insane how good it feels to ship this  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6jK0VMspEM
  (resurfaced 3× · 22 likes · 2020-01-13 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1216802374599053313)
- @vgr Yes. And I achieve almost everything I set out to do 😂
  (resurfaced 3× · 22 likes · 2019-09-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1175699364523569152)
- “What’s the point of that?”  Art has many utilities, but the chief utility is the freedom from being shackled to narrow, utilitarian questions like “what’s the point”. We don’t know what the point is, that’s the fun of it. We don’t know what’s outside; the point is to find out
  (resurfaced 3× · 22 likes · 2019-04-06 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114432954757828609)
- Marketer in me admires the consistent branding
  (resurfaced 3× · 22 likes · 2019-01-10 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083244042953969664)
- 9. How to apologize, by @izs  https://blog.izs.me/2015/09/how-to-apologize/
  (resurfaced 3× · 22 likes · 2018-12-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076752056663195649)
- @StefanMolyneux People tend to fixate on the past 200 years but SG has actually been a thriving port for several hundred years prior, as part of previous maritime empires - Srivijaya ~800-1200, Majapahit ~1200-1500
  (resurfaced 3× · 22 likes · 2019-02-24 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1099768297610915840)
- @gypsy_panther @vgr are ya'll familiar with his reverse-engineering strategy for movies? IIRC he wanted to be a movie star, analyzed what were top-grossing movies, noticed that they involved aliens. space, robots...  therefore: men in black, independence day, i robot, wild wild west, hancock...
  (resurfaced 3× · 22 likes · 2019-01-30 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090443094477160448)
- 1/ It's very, very possible for a person to make a living- an astonishingly good living- by hawking bullshit.
  (resurfaced 3× · 22 likes · 2015-01-29 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/560704126804164608)
- “everything happens if you stay alive” - al pacino
  (resurfaced 3× · 21 likes · 2024-02-18 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1759080492413124621)
- apparently mesopotamians would tell their bad dreams to a piece of clay then throw it into water, to dissolve the destructive energy of the dream  Egypt: also had this sense of "adverse effects of bad dreams". vivid dreams = you're blessed  greeks: communion with gods
  (resurfaced 3× · 21 likes · 2021-03-06 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1368185080007380992)
- Rather I think the lesson or reminder here is that no concept is safe from exploitation; anything can be weaponized to justify bullshit
  (resurfaced 3× · 21 likes · 2019-11-20 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1197014241313583105)
- Earlier @artpi said something that made me laugh, and think: he described tweets as “like sushi 🍣” - small, bite-sized pieces of writing that are meant to be consumed one pop at a time.  You *could* throw a bunch of sushi on a plate and call it a meal, but that feels off somehow
  (resurfaced 3× · 21 likes · 2019-11-10 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1193568968398626821)
- 34. Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  (resurfaced 3× · 21 likes · 2018-12-14 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073540292777660416)
- In this age of outrage, contempt & vindictiveness, I find myself curious to learn more about Gandhi – his non-violent ideology, and his stunning achievement in persuading hundreds of millions to, at least for a little while, maybe... not be violent assholes. How did he do it?
  (resurfaced 3× · 21 likes · 2019-02-24 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1099699372588130305)
- Morning! Woke up at 5am with Victor Wooten’s “it’s so simple, but we make it hard” quote on my mind
  (resurfaced 3× · 21 likes · 2019-02-19 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1097973508028547072)
- Ask me a question about something you think I wouldn’t be too interested in
  (resurfaced 3× · 21 likes · 2019-01-31 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090992506597081088)
- Day 4! Observation: South Indian mosquitos are much easier to kill than Southeast Asian ones. They seem slower & stupider. I’ve killed like 10 of these guys within the first three attempts. I don’t condone revenge killings but these arseholes *are* persistent (that’s my blood)
  (resurfaced 3× · 21 likes · 2018-12-06 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1070482546574512128)
- We are all tracings in the sand; a mountains, humans and rainbows are all the same thing vibrating at different frequencies https://x.com/oortcloudatlas/status/1025162363811520514
  (resurfaced 3× · 21 likes · 2018-08-04 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1025651752459104256)
- "Echo chamber" is phrase that can be used to dismiss anybody who has taken the trouble to design an apparatus for processing info. But every serious info operator HAS to do it. Refuse to weed your garden, and your flowers will die + be overrun with weeds  https://x.com/visakanv/status/664260596850802689
  (resurfaced 3× · 21 likes · 2018-08-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026872153000443906)
- @AgnesCallard nobody deserves anything
  (resurfaced 3× · 20 likes · 2021-12-08 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1468653030518112261)
- Kanye quotes Drake  “We has a little beef last year, but he has this line which I love...”
  (resurfaced 3× · 20 likes · 2019-06-27 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1144118623381815298)
- There’s this interesting bit in the New Testament where Jesus is unable to perform miracles in his hometown seemingly because the people who knew him since he was a kid didn’t or couldn’t take him seriously
  (resurfaced 3× · 20 likes · 2018-10-10 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1049889408118386688)
- @patio11 Ooh yes - people love to describe Singapore as sterile but we actually have quite a bit of nice art and architecture in our MRT stations too
  (resurfaced 3× · 20 likes · 2019-11-29 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1200279087085834240)
- @easoncxz I scream in private so I can charm in public
  (resurfaced 3× · 20 likes · 2019-10-05 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1180430174409482240)
- There’s a bookstore in Parklane that I love - the lady who runs it is super charismatic and warm, and she has some delightfully odd books
  (resurfaced 3× · 20 likes · 2019-04-13 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1116957060258770946)
- Walking the tightrope of “I possess very important information that some people really need to hear” and “Baka, it’s not like a big deal or anything!”
  (resurfaced 3× · 20 likes · 2019-05-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1127403997046775808)
- Googling “Marilyn Manson girlfriend” or “Salman Rushdie girlfriend” is a kind of red pill; these guys know a simple truth that other guys overlook when busy trying to impress each other instead of women. (They’re also notably shitty boyfriends; but at least they’re interesting?)
  (resurfaced 3× · 20 likes · 2019-04-23 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1120540099538714625)
- me: anybody can write, everybody should be writing all the time  also me: what is a word, actually. how do we even words. there are no rules, the meanings are all made up. one day the whole house of cards will fall and we will stare at the squiggles and they will make no sense
  (resurfaced 3× · 20 likes · 2019-01-08 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082531635130552322)
- one of the greatest training montages ever made
  (resurfaced 3× · 20 likes · 2019-01-02 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1080482960963301383)
- Early morning 5am thought: every hour is a different place
  (resurfaced 3× · 20 likes · 2018-07-28 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1023339536959434753)
- A scared little delivery bot docks in its station, its chassis scuffed and dented.  “What’s the matter, FD0034?”  “The humans... they kicked me! I stopped so they could pass, but they didn’t- they...”  [*M2 Browning guns whirs*]  “They will cease to be a concern, my child.” https://x.com/sfgate/status/1006404961469530112
  (resurfaced 3× · 20 likes · 2018-06-14 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1007099172091117568)
- Aside – I've actually been thinking a lot lately about how often people discuss and argue about things like politics, government, education systems, etc at dinner parties, over drinks and so on. Grumpy old Singaporean men do this _a lot_. Probably grumpy old men everywhere https://x.com/ComfortablySmug/status/930622410314993670
  (resurfaced 3× · 20 likes · 2017-11-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/930679252185485314)
- note to write about how hilarious/bleak the Social Development Unit was/is – very emblematic of Singapore, I think. To overwork people, wonder why they’re not dating, and then come up with yet another new initiative to try and get people to do what they’d do naturally if rested
  (resurfaced 3× · 19 likes · 2021-10-31 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1454739173345169412)
- 5. Santana style C minor
  (resurfaced 3× · 19 likes · 2021-03-13 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1370698206045106176)
- 25. "If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library." – Tony Benn, prolific diarist, Postmaster General, UK Cabinet Minister in the 60s and 70s  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn
  (resurfaced 3× · 19 likes · 2020-12-02 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1334088159303397377)
- both hayley and kanye cried during their interviews with zane, and both said they’d never cried in an interview before
  (resurfaced 3× · 19 likes · 2020-02-29 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1233688269121916928)
- Some people think I’m some sort of Cultural Marxist but tbh I would really like to build cathedrals   I just happen to use words rather than bricks because I am poor
  (resurfaced 3× · 19 likes · 2019-01-10 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083318315672494080)
- you cannot defeat a man,, who kicks his own ass
  (resurfaced 3× · 19 likes · 2019-03-03 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1102040238489128960)
- I’ve been reflecting on how I’ve taught myself music over the years. *Do* I know music? I know enough of it to have been paid to play it, though I still probably know less than a few % of what professional musos and even serious enthusiasts know. Huge deficits and gaps. And yet https://x.com/1000wordvomits/status/1068604800852520960
  (resurfaced 3× · 19 likes · 2018-11-30 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068609866221010944)
- it's time for another episode of "visa spends hours rearranging his links and notes and bookmarks, what is he even doing!!"
  (resurfaced 3× · 19 likes · 2018-12-23 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076778013381939201)
- The Wachowskis have some themes and tropes that run across all their work - there’s often a situation where the characters are about to be bugged, lobotomized, operated on, psychologically or literally murdered by authority figures - a sense of powerlessness, violation, betrayal
  (resurfaced 3× · 19 likes · 2018-06-04 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1003782810270756864)
- So, the thoughts themselves. I woke up in the middle of the night feeling... a basket of "negative" emotions. Anger, sadness, grief, frustration, impatience, disappointment. A meta-sadness of sorts at waking up to all of that. And a meta-meta for being late to this. You get it
  (resurfaced 3× · 19 likes · 2017-12-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/945743706962804736)
- So the interesting qn is: what is the story we have in our heads around sleep, energy? The deep underlying belief abt what it's all about
  (resurfaced 3× · 19 likes · 2017-05-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/866494548427497473)
- I'm a sucker for really good titles, and this one is one of the best: "You Don't Understand Bitcoin Because You Think Money Is Real"  https://t.co/xvKdZ8DTlA
  (resurfaced 3× · 19 likes · 2018-06-18 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1008596548203102208)
- I've started tagging my posts from @1000wordvomits. One of the tags is named "truths". I have at least 30+ of them. Here they are! 🤓
  (resurfaced 3× · 19 likes · 2017-06-23 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/878323769013436419)
- See this labyrinth tattoo? I got it after publishing Introspect, to commemorate it - the labyrinth is a journey through your most painful experiences. If you want to melt the tension from your face, you have to journey inwards and face your inner Minotaur, which is *you*
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2022-03-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1506187685978796035)
- there are some contexts where the setup invites disagreement, eg "would you agree that..." and if someone says "i disagree..." there, I probably don't even notice that bc it fits the format, it goes with the dance  it's the jarring outta-nowhere "I disagree" that's a sour note
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2023-03-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1640440142199656450)
- Before Gal Gadot earned the opportunity to inspire little girls as Wonder Woman, she had to first cut her teeth playing Exotic Sex Object Lady
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2018-12-15 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073996007778574336)
- @david_perell always fun to see how my music background and your sports background overlap  my first piece of "advice to my younger songwriter self" is very similar  https://t.co/P9eNRXAGSL
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2021-07-09 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1413593455226359811)
- "...our fine philosophical speeches may be only an outward show... But in this last scene between ourselves and death, there is no more pretence. We must use plain words, and display such goodness or purity as we have at the bottom of the pot." https://x.com/amyhoy/status/673196262410162176
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2021-02-09 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1359034617383161856)
- I do notice that the proprietors of these spaces tend to have high standards and are pretty strongly insistent on enforcing them. soup nazi vibes. maybe authoritarian-spirited folks should really be running cultural institutions rather than nation-states 😂
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2020-11-06 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1324712493097259008)
- 082: advice for people in their 20s, part 1  particularly want to solicit questions in the comments here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVOOoCQoU4s
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2020-11-25 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331748896029040640)
- everything is made of cake tweet
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2020-07-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1282083800600608768)
- If you get struck by lightning and live (kind of a big If), it seems like you might get some cool scars to show for it
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2019-06-24 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1143197959317667840)
- @1000wordvomits alright this is where we're at with about 80 posts copied and interlinked, 700 more to go. slightly worried i'm going to break it somehow... think i'll do a couple of rounds of pruning, tidying and consolidating before loading in the next 100
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2019-12-23 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1209199532044509185)
- ... I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2019-05-02 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1124035051589636099)
- VV's coinages, a thread
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2019-03-20 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108353279866503168)
- apparently the 'subtle asian traits' meme facebook group was started by asians in australia, and the asian-americans overran it 😂 cue memes about "oh no, the americans are here, hide the oil" 😂😂
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2018-12-23 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076908978167209984)
- @nwilliams030 in nicole williams masterpiece "sans knee", the artist makes use of her physical self as a trojan horse for delivering the audience to the toilet – which is really a reminder of humanity's inexorable march towards its final destination. in this essay i will argue that
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2018-04-23 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988261761890508801)
- There’s a place behind me which claims to sell “authentic European cuisine”. Just saw a lady (who looks vaguely European) balk at it and go “wtf is European cuisine??” to her friend. 😂 fair point. Like what is “Asian food” either? 😂 We all use the vaguest terms
  (resurfaced 3× · 18 likes · 2018-07-25 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022074131531976704)
- As with Twitter, I just freestyle. My roam is public, you can see it for yourself. The pages in the sidebar are the most commonly used/accessed ones  https://roamresearch.com/#/app/visakanv-public/page/45EU_k-rI  https://x.com/lukeallenmiller/status/1420457840653660161
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2021-07-28 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1420459095320977408)
- https://thepigeongazette.tumblr.com/post/124161983539/rohan-answered-and-then-we-played-a-sick-round-of
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2020-12-04 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1334913611840425984)
- Brian Eno probably underrates the importance of Brian Eno. He's a prolific producer and collaborator and coined the term "ambient music"
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2021-02-24 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1364509671051042817)
- ok the last time I decided to make a map it ended up going really well for me, but no pressure. this time, a map of my blog https://x.com/visakanv/status/1373543821410115584
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2021-03-21 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1373546277066006532)
- @SamoBurja Jung
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2020-10-12 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1315577808341463040)
- "I want people to read my stories—of course I do. That’s why I write them. But knowing, in that immediate and unmediated way, what people thought about my writing felt... the word I keep reaching for, even though it seems melodramatic, is annihilating. " https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-it-felt-like-when-cat-person-went-viral
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2019-04-06 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114482897044434945)
- I just *think better* visually with scapple. some part of me was hoping that roam would scratch this itch for me, and it does at a sort of "mindcity" scale, but scapple is still my favorite workspace. you can see how my thinking evolves and shapes up
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2020-03-14 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1238871939071930371)
- A thought Bobby helped me articulate: being Extremely Online is like being an athlete. It's extreme sports. You're really putting your mental health on the line. You get to experience tremendous highs, but you also have to become a master of managing your own psyche
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2020-02-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1230906578011738112)
- Found a short video snippet in my archives! It felt like a party 😂 Nov 2013
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2019-08-07 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1158893195536637952)
- Representation matters, right? It’s great for young girls to see women in all sorts of roles- to meet a pilot, a scientist, a congresswoman, etc. They can also be inspired by men, sure but there’s a difference. We know this; that’s why we make such a big deal about representation
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2019-03-02 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101985403416981505)
- I try to keep updating this thread whenever I meet new internet friends IRL. The interesting thing is, not only do I meet different people each time, they do, too. Each person "pulls" out a different version of me, and experiences a different Visakan https://x.com/visakanv/status/1002195033380929536
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2018-09-25 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044540362587463680)
- I think often about Karl Paulnack’s thoughts about the utility of music, of art. It might sometimes seem like mere ornamentation, but it’s also a deep source of healing. It’s how people come together and say “we are here, we are alive.” Musicians are spiritual first responders https://x.com/ryanhillmi/status/1117899260496887812
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2019-04-16 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1117958034381099008)
- haters are fans too https://x.com/visakanv/status/1016595001709453312
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2019-03-10 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1104696088441704449)
- Thinking this morning about whether it would surprise people to hear that I found my two years of mandatory military service much, much less unpleasant than 10+ years of school
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2018-10-09 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1049517832587726848)
- Seeing Spaces https://worrydream.com/SeeingSpaces/
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2018-12-31 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1079692324026765318)
- Honestly I think this sort of thinking is simplistic and the science and methodology is mislaid. I’ve long suspected this but so feel more confident openly saying this after we’ve learned about all the replication problems in psych and socio studies. https://x.com/stevestuwill/status/1010382735100334080
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2018-06-25 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1011047543189352448)
- ya know, it doesn't matter if 99.9% of the world obsesses about grades if you plan to work for the remaining 0.1% of employers
  (resurfaced 3× · 17 likes · 2013-08-15 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/367923066979889152)
- Another comparison
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2020-03-24 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1242404205546991616)
- qasem soleimani tweet
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2020-01-03 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1212949123843837952)
- 156. warm notice
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2018-12-14 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073539597311725568)
- 55. Mediterranean with @sharanvkaur, @made_in_cosmos & @artpi: remote work, travel, being semi-nomadic, the spirit & letter of rituals, incentives, schooling, infrastructure, customer support, online stores, forums, languages, different cultures, Patreon, blogging vs tweeting
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2019-11-10 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1193550375338405888)
- How do people get by when they collectively can't make enough? Lean on each other more than we imagine possible
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2018-01-28 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/957516069198966784)
- Here’s a fun quote from LKY to Deng Xiaoping: “We are only the descendants of illiterate, landless farmers in Fujian, Guangdong and other places, but many of you are the descendants of officials and scholars.” Goh Chok Tong retold it in 2009 https://www.pmo.gov.sg/newsroom/speech-mr-goh-chok-tong-senior-minister-singapore-guangdong-development-forum-24-march/
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2019-03-27 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110904051976175616)
- @itssynecdoche @AgniBankai noticing a few people recommend orchard road – it's kinda meh, tbh. worth wandering through a little bit, I guess but it's basically the same lifeless gucci/prada schtick at any major city. (1) I would go to arab street, haji lane instead (2, 3), chinatown (4)
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2019-09-09 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1171032529161207808)
- hayley williams for chief moderator of the internet
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2017-11-17 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/931628976023523328)
- People tend to get fixated on the specific “types”, but where it really gets interesting is in its attempt at breaking down “functions”. You can take this with you even if you don’t care for MBTI at all - just this simple idea that we perceive and act inwardly and outwardly
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2019-04-15 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1117836718659387393)
- @julianweisser @TheAnnaGat @webdevMason Best way to do this IMO is to blog extensively then date people who read your blog
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2019-05-08 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1126013690988322817)
- It's time for a Twitter re-telling of a 2008 Internet classic, The Drawing of The Spider
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2019-01-28 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089790629469577217)
- I’m thinking about how school made my writing worse, not better, and how I had to unlearn what I was taught  I think there’s something similar to be said about socializing https://x.com/danwwang/status/997489268686635008
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2018-09-13 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1040199233532440576)
- Egoraptor opens by explaining how early video games didn't really know how to how to teach & engross players. They made poor simulations of real-world games, like sports or cards. They would often use tedious instruction manuals on how to play, or distracting in-game tutorials
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2018-12-09 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071630775546634242)
- Day two in Karaikudi, TN. Here are a couple of street views - I love how the people here are bold with their color choices
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2018-12-04 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1069854384387842049)
- Eg: artists like Beyoncé have teams of creatives working for them. She’s effectively the conductor of a creative orchestra at this point. But simply having access to good material (which she has earned, over decades of work) doesn’t guarantee good output. Her taste still matters
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2018-07-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1016222222896095234)
- protester aesthetics, a thread  (last one is from a 2011 fashion photoshoot for a magazine)
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2018-08-18 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1030762718192533504)
- How about an article in The Atlantic asking if The Atlantic is Making Us Stupid? I don’t mean this in some sort of snarky, dismissive way – I mean what if the media actually asked these questions and explored them in a sincere, good-faith way https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2018-07-05 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014843408060301313)
- A big part about talking about cultural things is getting things wrong. RIght? How can you get things right the first time around? If you're interested in something, you're going to explore, you're going to hypothesize, and you're going to be wrong
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2017-12-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/943421079359389697)
- @fortelabs @sonyaellenmann @danbubinga yep – it's the radical candor thing – it takes skill+effort to avoid falling into the 'bad' quadrants
  (resurfaced 3× · 16 likes · 2017-05-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/860051524721926144)
- wadup hoebags, new substack essay is liiiive https://visakanv.substack.com/p/branching-paths
  (resurfaced 3× · 15 likes · 2023-05-11 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1656454180830326784)
- say what you want about Elon, the man knows how to make a plan and stick to it. This was in 2006 https://t.co/UM2pX7U8wD
  (resurfaced 3× · 15 likes · 2021-10-04 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1444909751377137665)
- Triumph Over Darkness:  "The ways of making are indeed wondrous--the child born of its mother, the sun rolling into sky, the song rising from the lips, the world springing from the word of god. The essence of life is brilliant, dazzling."
  (resurfaced 3× · 15 likes · 2022-01-11 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1480959052549005314)
- alright friends welcome to VV's cocktail bar, on your left you have our popular hot favorites and on the right you have the more obscure choices  might have missed a couple here and there but who's counting eh
  (resurfaced 3× · 15 likes · 2021-06-11 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1403344639709442054)
- I have dozens of pictures like this. I wonder, if I made an exhibition of these pictures, would people then take pictures of the photos in the exhibit? There would definitely be an interactive component
  (resurfaced 3× · 15 likes · 2018-07-04 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014385005009571843)
- @granolaJC To your aid, Jeannine, I personally summon my Most Esteemed Council of Wise Elder Lady Nerds:  @dnabartell, @shaboom, @marthalawton, @kristineberth, @isibree, @ElviaRO
  (resurfaced 3× · 15 likes · 2019-11-17 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1196082452956999684)
- This is how much I perspire just running after a bus at 640pm in 31C / 88F Singapore. Definitely feels like some sort of body central heating readjustment thing going on, I don’t usually get screwed this bad this quick
  (resurfaced 3× · 15 likes · 2019-05-11 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1127162156409954305)
- I am so many different people
  (resurfaced 3× · 15 likes · 2019-05-19 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1130105712913321984)
- "Communism has only arisen since machinery and other inventions made it possible [...] Communism is the theory of a liberation which was not possible for the slaves, serfs or handicraftsmen, but only for the proletarians. It belongs to the 19th century; was not possible before."
  (resurfaced 3× · 15 likes · 2018-03-06 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/971081801765601280)
- Scenes from an evening walk with the missus
  (resurfaced 3× · 15 likes · 2018-07-12 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017366252107382785)
- Some dudes complain of “woman-deprivation”, but they don’t want women womening up their “dude spaces”. Basically these dudes want women to behave in a highly specific, predictable, commoditized way, and anything that deviates from that expectation is actually a punishable offense https://x.com/sixthtone/status/1010495199951368193
  (resurfaced 3× · 15 likes · 2018-06-24 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1010759065717243904)
- Somebody get Marie Kondo and Jordan Peterson on a podcast about cleaning your room
  (resurfaced 3× · 15 likes · 2018-06-19 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1008883860556341248)
- lol, a mean tweet accusing shakespeare of being a second-rate midwit, inferior to the much-esteemed University Wits  the guy attacking shakespeare is now primarily known for being the hater that named him
  (resurfaced 3× · 14 likes · 2021-03-14 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1371187821273251840)
- "world war 3" tweet
  (resurfaced 3× · 14 likes · 2020-01-03 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1212947987367743488)
- this is just sad
  (resurfaced 3× · 14 likes · 2019-06-13 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139215378867818496)
- I don't mean to be dismissive; at heart I think I'm a frustrated idealist who's seen too much energy expended with nothing to show for it
  (resurfaced 3× · 14 likes · 2016-12-16 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/809557875177590784)
- It was never officially designated as such, but @marinabaysands has become The Singapore Landmark / Schelling Point. It's basically our Eiffel Tower at this point, beating out the Merlion, Changi Airport's control tower, the Esplanade... https://x.com/Lauren12arsenal/status/928240724046467072
  (resurfaced 3× · 14 likes · 2017-11-09 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/928525621063331841)
- A silly thought: what if Christianity became the world’s dominant religion... because it has the simplest and most memorable logo? ✝️  +10 ease of meme replication and transmission https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072376160829485057
  (resurfaced 3× · 14 likes · 2018-12-11 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072377968025108480)
- @citizenhudson @ColomboSeb @hausofriya Skinwalkers: https://t.co/vMNboJ4qek
  (resurfaced 3× · 14 likes · 2018-03-01 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/969105799757746176)
- @vgr I have felt this way my whole life. Like I'm a dormant half of a Lennon-McCartney duo. In the process of searching I found a great spouse and a great boss and lots of lovely friends but no goddamn co-conspirator. I wonder what the idiot motherfucker is doing.
  (resurfaced 3× · 14 likes · 2018-02-13 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/963232867701571584)
- Fun fact: the birth of psychoanalysis was contemporaneous with the development of Daimler's petrol-driven motor-car. The British Medical Journal carried an editorial, "The Therapeutic Possibilities of Automobilism". I think late night drives have validated that idea...
  (resurfaced 3× · 14 likes · 2018-01-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/956190565812465670)
- It's incredibly unfortunate that Hamill has to feel this way for being honest, sincere and whole-hearted. The public is a monster. This is part of what drives public figures to depression and suicide. It's a shame Star Wars fans aren't better than this. The Force is not with you https://x.com/HamillHimself/status/945784443964309505
  (resurfaced 3× · 14 likes · 2017-12-27 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/945840723693223936)
- "no money, no residence, no profession other than punditry" so you saying Stalin was like a schizoid NEET shitposter well into his 30s
  (resurfaced 3× · 13 likes · 2021-11-19 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1461739117801185282)
- Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1M9aLBmG5zozizPixSwou0?si=wbJUEGBORXCeEXBe4zg1PQ
  (resurfaced 3× · 13 likes · 2021-03-31 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1377208236357513218)
- TIL Hong Lim Park is named after an Opium overlord. Channel 8 Narcos when?
  (resurfaced 3× · 13 likes · 2019-08-08 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1159500689430568961)
- In the 1550s, two decades before Francis Drake would become an English hero for circumnavigating the globe, an impatient and inexperienced crew of English explorers tried sailing through the North Pole to cut 2,000 miles & avoid the Portuguese and Dutch.  They... froze to death.
  (resurfaced 3× · 13 likes · 2019-10-03 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1179646653260677120)
- I used to be v dependent on cigarettes (I do still smoke, but my relationship with cigarettes is far less needy now)– and I was *fascinated* to realize that I was IMO using them to attempt to regulate my blood sugar levels  many interwoven systems and mechanisms at play here...
  (resurfaced 3× · 13 likes · 2019-06-09 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1137665255847239680)
- Hanging out with a guy playing guitar at the park - I asked if I could film him and he said “I don’t have a face for that kind of thing”. He handed me his guitar afterwards 😂
  (resurfaced 3× · 13 likes · 2019-05-03 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1124462201895510016)
- Right – turns out what I'm looking for are examples of "twin stick shooters" – games that require you to use one stick to move, and another stick to reorient. Here's Beacon, which is one such game. I've been thinking about this a lot while helping my wife get better at FPS games
  (resurfaced 3× · 13 likes · 2019-04-08 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1115227431168761856)
- when you meet a fireman, turn on your sirens  when you meet a stripper, take off your clothes  when you meet a computer, print('Hello Mister Roboto')  when you meet God, laugh
  (resurfaced 3× · 13 likes · 2018-09-19 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042473803811414016)
- was taking a minute to try and list all of the things that compete for my attention every day and I got tired halfway
  (resurfaced 3× · 13 likes · 2017-12-05 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/937935645342863360)
- dita von teese's house is dripping with aesthetic resonance with everything else about her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHyIOIstYRA
  (resurfaced 3× · 12 likes · 2022-06-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1541740896550457344)
- here's me strategizing in 2016 about what it would look like for me to make a living as a writer  this is so reassuring for me to re-read, I can see the internal conflict playing out. I knew I could make $ selling marketing advice, but I couldn't persuade myself to
  (resurfaced 3× · 12 likes · 2021-09-06 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1434893825097437188)
- @ontologytaoist not necessarily! bystanders can diffuse tension without escalating it. lots of people don't seem to appreciate/understand this. also, it doesn't need to be done alone – if I were there I would've gotten a couple of sympathetic strangers to go and chat with the counter lady
  (resurfaced 3× · 12 likes · 2018-03-16 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/974501089897664512)
- Woke up thinking about My Chemical Romance’s Helena - powerful song, amazing aesthetics on the music video, strong feelings, anthemic, taught my generation the meaning of red & black. IMO tied for #1 song of 2004 along with Mr. Brightside, which maybe has more universal appeal
  (resurfaced 3× · 12 likes · 2018-07-29 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1023439253705961472)
- testing the mic + camera at the same time  wait for the clap
  (resurfaced 3× · 12 likes · 2020-09-04 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1301940464744947714)
- I came to Rialto but nobody’s here yet. I bumped into Stephen, who’s a retired traveller from London. He used to be a professor of social psychology at the University of Manchester! We spent some time talking about the Manchester music scene of his time, and compared travel notes
  (resurfaced 3× · 12 likes · 2019-04-26 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1121828395220779008)
- Looking for a fun new status-signalling game to play. Anybody up to anything interesting? What’s a fun new way to show off and make friends these days
  (resurfaced 3× · 12 likes · 2018-08-26 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1033691370144198658)
- Longest speech ever delivered at the UN was by Krishna Menon, on the subject of Kashmir.  POTUS Eisenhower described him as a “menace”.  “My English is better than yours. You merely picked it up, I learned it.” Ooooh I felt that one 😂 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._K._Krishna_Menon
  (resurfaced 3× · 12 likes · 2018-10-17 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052564924021403648)
- I’m also enjoying the different archetypes - the police chief, the shark hunter, the oceanographer. Oh, now a bunch of amateur shark hunters are out to get the bounty from the grieving mum. And the press are frothing at the mouth over it, hoping to go national
  (resurfaced 3× · 12 likes · 2018-08-30 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035085035240448000)
- It’s always an interesting experience to be somewhere where the national flag isn’t your own. You feel like a guest in a place that isn’t yours; the sense of place is particularly pronounced. This was at Trichy airport; lots of people eagerly waiting for friends and loved ones
  (resurfaced 3× · 11 likes · 2018-12-03 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1069712042850807808)
- @sonyaellenmann I actually have “I am the house dictator” as rule #1 in my communities 😂
  (resurfaced 3× · 11 likes · 2018-07-18 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1019453269033115649)
- @TaylorPearsonMe “Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.” - Marvin Minsky
  (resurfaced 3× · 11 likes · 2019-02-17 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1097025466899226625)
- wow thai graduation outfits are stylish as hell
  (resurfaced 3× · 11 likes · 2018-09-24 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044106670849183745)
- in the beginning... there was The Beat  it was always there, pulsing. beating  it was in *relation* to The Beat that we even have the *idea* of a "beginning"  to amuse itself, The Beat took the form of The TechnoLord  And the TechnoLord said...  "let there be tits"  and it was so
  (resurfaced 3× · 11 likes · 2018-12-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078438713196081152)
- what are the somewhat unusual, weird and cool things about our mutuals?  eg @callumflack is a *serious* geek about records @devonzuegel is a city nerd @autotrnslucence is a *world-class* body-painter @patio11 knows too much pricing @legalinspire is a KNIFE MASTER  [show me more]
  (resurfaced 3× · 11 likes · 2018-12-18 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074959129280573440)
- Day three! Here’s a dhoti ad
  (resurfaced 3× · 11 likes · 2018-12-05 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1070251348556279809)
- Just completed Infamous: First Light. Fairly short, simple and straightforward game, yet satisfying overall. Love the aesthetic and mood. Well written, planned and structured. I want to know more about Fetch; I’ve grown to care about her in just a few hours
  (resurfaced 3× · 11 likes · 2018-07-17 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1019288770359668736)
- fairy tales should come with warning labels  https://x.com/visakanv/status/899845391327256576
  (resurfaced 3× · 11 likes · 2017-12-10 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/939814791329095680)
- Gang Leader For A Day (currently 118 pages in; fascinating stuff)
  (resurfaced 3× · 11 likes · 2018-01-28 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/957491354652721152)
- Language is full of interesting legacy issues. The pocket supercomputer I'm writing this on isn't really a "phone" or a "mobile"
  (resurfaced 3× · 11 likes · 2015-07-27 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/625505409185349632)
- When I saw this GTA V poster in real life, it blew my mind. This was in 2013 – selfies, Instagram, etc were just beginning to take off, and they hadn't quite become as "normal" as they are now. I think I wrote a lengthy note about this. sth abt next-level self-awareness/gaze
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2018-02-06 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/960933227648073728)
- Consciousness is distributed across the whole network
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2013-07-01 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/351502407211024389)
- The glamorous part of selling tshirts that nobody tells you about
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2018-09-13 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1040138211085807616)
- 57. coffee with @Ben_Reinhardt - tech and sci-fi, encouraging innovation, cultural differences, parents and grandparents, travel as means to breaking out of contexts + discovering the assumptions you didn’t know you had, retrospectively identifying good advice, secret side quests
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2019-11-27 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1199581680417165312)
- @sharanvkaur @StephMakesFaces Just ottomh-  Passionfruit cover Hallelujah Miracle Misguided ghosts Ain’t it fun Franklin Emergency My heart Here we go again Brighter Still into you Last hope That’s what you get Let the flames begin Monster Decode Born for this Hate to see your heart break Matilda cover
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2019-01-05 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1081600999175815168)
- High stress jobs = difficulty conceiving  Couples who struggle to conceive often conceive after deciding to adopt instead - the stress of trying kept them from conceiving  Medical students' sperm counts drop dramatically as exam season approaches
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2018-01-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/956118163124494336)
- Just completed the main story of #Borderlands3. Without spoiling anything, I thought it was pretty decent. If you liked BL2, you should play BL3.  I played it in splitscreen co-op on PS4; which was a frustrating experience. Maybe they will improve that with subsequent updates
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2019-09-22 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1175867495602802688)
- When you are out in the ocean, away from sight of land, you see the same view Alexander the Great saw as he sailed the eastern Mediterranean, that Napoleon saw en route to exile, etc. You're an ocean away from land, but also connected to vast, unbroken chain of oceanseekers
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2018-04-14 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/985032555094130688)
- One must imagine Sisyphus LOL-ing
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2016-04-23 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/723937651032657920)
- Old shophouses converted into bars and eateries
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2018-06-17 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1008265293334888448)
- @karlnieb have you read Alain de Botton's The News?
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2017-10-02 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/914839297257287680)
- I'd also like to request a tab in notifications just for quote tweets.  bc right now they only show up in All, but not in Mentions? so if I want to respond to quote tweets, I have to scroll past all the follows, likes *and* mentions? losing track of QTs breaks my user experience
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2019-06-02 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135139291858792448)
- Been thinking about the role and utility of polite fictions, and the resulting complications. Different people inherit different sets of them and not many people know how to navigate multiple competing sets of fictions in a tactful way
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2019-04-05 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114131250648715264)
- After 3 years, I'm finally changing my Twitter header photo. I had a very specific reason for the previous one; will write about it tomorrow
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2017-09-08 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/906245552915881984)
- The BEST thing I've watched this year was "Wrestling Isn't Wrestling". It's 24 minutes long. I believe I legitimately cried at the end, and will cry again if I watch it now. It's about narratives, characters, story and meaning. So entertaining AND powerful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYvMOf3hsGA
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2017-11-22 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/933230353266782210)
- A liberal-turned-neoliberal is just a capitalist who *pretended* to be interested in “free markets” long enough for governments and regulations and taxes to leave him alone until his mega-empire becomes “too big to fail”
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2018-11-15 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1062995336635924480)
- a Mask of the Face of Glory – Kirtimukha – a common symbol in kovils, with some Shiva-related backstory. This one was possibly made in the 1800s during the Majapahit period – you can find them in temples. Adding some pics from Java, Siemreap and Chiangmai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtimukha
  (resurfaced 3× · 10 likes · 2018-10-14 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1051416765991796736)
- since this is my steve vai thread I should also add that this 11 year old video "how to be successful" was a very strong influence on me, you can notice multiple of my talking points are directly remixed from his here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atGBKuCJ-Jc
  (resurfaced 3× · 9 likes · 2022-10-12 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1580303932542554115)
- curious now about the enduring iconography of the duck  Thai protesters in 2020 used them as symbols, and as shields against water cannons
  (resurfaced 3× · 9 likes · 2021-08-14 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1426358958017564673)
- @pragueyerrr
  (resurfaced 3× · 9 likes · 2021-07-09 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1413604124747202562)
- 035: REROUTING  I think it's very important in times of isolation to be very specific and deliberate with yourself about what you're looking forward to. video games, books, little projects, calls with friends. ask yourself what's up &what you're gonna do  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRrulytjyGg
  (resurfaced 3× · 9 likes · 2020-04-05 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1246780743641993222)
- @Aryeh___ @eigenrobot it’s good and bad
  (resurfaced 3× · 9 likes · 2020-02-24 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1231835601801859072)
- Peggy had two children before David – a son Terence, whose father ran out on them – and a daughter (Myra Ann), from a wartime romance, who was given up for adoption  War is so fucked up and it fucks people's lives to unbelievable degrees. few people ever properly talk about it
  (resurfaced 3× · 9 likes · 2019-06-19 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141328343989534720)
- Final Fantasy 7 understood this.  after you fight the game’s final boss, they let you fight sephiroth 1v1  and if you haven’t unlocked the final limit break in the game, they GIVE IT TO YOU ANYWAY  (and just in case you’re horny for sephiroth, they make him shirtless, bc why not)
  (resurfaced 3× · 9 likes · 2019-03-23 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1109400357644320768)
- Stories about friendship, romance, conflict, anger, fights, struggles - these things are always relevant. I’ll call them obsolete when we live in a utopian wonderland of kindness and love. Until then, there’s always space for stories for us to live into, and learn from
  (resurfaced 3× · 9 likes · 2018-12-09 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071690424488648705)
- I really like this show! This episode is about leather jackets, and it explores all the different contexts, the history, how different people in different parts of the world look at it differently. Each item is like a radioactive tracer you can follow through the body of culture
  (resurfaced 3× · 9 likes · 2019-01-22 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087584387271581696)
- this is a beautiful example of the tech media narrative cycle btw – every prominent player has to go through cycles of being loathed and loved to engage and entertain the masses. Soon we'll hear about how great FB is. And then the pendulum will swing back again
  (resurfaced 3× · 9 likes · 2018-07-24 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1021851339129741312)
- the laziest book blurb of all time from a @nytimes writer, vs one of the best blurbs I've ever read – from an anonymous, good-hearted pirate
  (resurfaced 3× · 9 likes · 2018-01-03 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/948433179177762816)
- "Freud is a genius, not of science but of propaganda, not of rigorous prood but of persuasion, not of the design of experiments, but of literary arts. His place is not with Copernicus and Darwin but with Hans Christian Anderson and The Brothers Grimm, tellers of tales."
  (resurfaced 3× · 9 likes · 2018-01-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/956180479484485635)
- When you exhale too much too quickly, your blood might be full of oxygen, but that oxygen doesn’t make it into your cells- because there’s not enough CO2!
  (resurfaced 3× · 8 likes · 2020-01-21 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1219518655970459649)
- mouth sounds hard  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szTFOYjmzIk
  (resurfaced 3× · 8 likes · 2020-07-24 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1286568185601253376)
- 024: DEPRESSION! (lol)  - similarity to fevers (unpleasant condition to facilitate change) - "life is an ordeal advertised as an adventure" - instead of telling people to cheer up, maybe be earnestly curious abt their experience - the strength in sadness  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KniQKDGM-hk
  (resurfaced 3× · 8 likes · 2020-03-07 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1236293366033166336)
- 2. words have families and histories https://x.com/visakanv/status/1043347396367855617?s=21
  (resurfaced 3× · 8 likes · 2019-02-07 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093433446016344064)
- Pichai: *laughing* my man, this meme is hilarious  Googler: haha I know right  Pichai: *chuckling* you’re fired  Googler: what the fuck
  (resurfaced 3× · 8 likes · 2018-09-22 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1043401374015180801)
- Edit button when
  (resurfaced 3× · 8 likes · 2019-02-11 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094884957292359680)
- The Big Bang was really a great cosmic fart and it’s still ongoing  It’s sad that this is not adequately reflected in any mainstream origin myth
  (resurfaced 3× · 8 likes · 2018-05-19 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/997692360522792962)
- MY LIFE  FOR AIUR
  (resurfaced 3× · 8 likes · 2018-12-17 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074729358248398848)
- I can't stand arts people who disdain science and science people who look down on arts... fuck ALL of you myopic dimwits
  (resurfaced 3× · 8 likes · 2011-07-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/94476782673199104)
- Going through my photos on my commute and found this pic from Halloween, of Left Shark clutching his beer
  (resurfaced 3× · 8 likes · 2017-12-05 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/937899334875561984)
- oh wow I've been looking for this picture for ages  this was me at peak fitness I think I could do like 15 pullups then
  (resurfaced 3× · 7 likes · 2019-08-27 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1166255065251770368)
- I just remembered that the CD of funeral hymns started skipping and looping at my uncle’s funeral. One of those strange “you can’t make this up” awkward-funny moments. 😅I would kinda love it if the CD started skipping at my funeral and everybody started scrambling in confusion
  (resurfaced 3× · 7 likes · 2018-12-29 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1079029919982673923)
- dazzle camouflage
  (resurfaced 3× · 7 likes · 2018-04-01 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/980375426747965440)
- At this point I’m refusing to read Robert Caro, like Sapiens, because everyone around me is into it
  (resurfaced 3× · 7 likes · 2019-02-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096270208736481281)
- @_jordan_bates upon re-reading I realize it could seem like a distraction, ie "isn't that the same as just ignoring it?" but actually no – I take the emotional surge I get from anger at cruelty and injustice, and channel it into being a doubly kind and nourishing presence on the planet
  (resurfaced 3× · 7 likes · 2019-01-24 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088407606354276352)
- On hindsight, Lord of War (2005) was one of the best movies I've ever seen. Best meaning compelling, depicting the complexity of human ills
  (resurfaced 3× · 7 likes · 2013-10-16 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/390377548724862976)
- It's interesting to witness how people throw the term "echo chamber" around to criticize others who are careful about curating information
  (resurfaced 3× · 7 likes · 2015-11-11 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/664260596850802689)
- Was asked who’s the most famous living person I’d like to meet, and I think it might be Hayley Williams. I’d wanna chat about Livejournal, & MySpace, and working with friends, growing up in public, dealing with pedestalization from fans, live music as communion, “authenticity”...
  (resurfaced 3× · 6 likes · 2019-07-05 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1147231923070091264)
- Wtf, sudden heavy rain out of a clear blue sky
  (resurfaced 3× · 6 likes · 2018-11-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1067655483555639297)
- @Clever_MetaName the babel fish scenario
  (resurfaced 3× · 6 likes · 2020-01-06 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1214172031912042499)
- This is now a thread of podcasts I've been on:  1. https://x.com/podcastnotes/status/1186326278137438209
  (resurfaced 3× · 6 likes · 2019-10-31 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1189853717878562817)
- I guess this is now the thread of my recommendations to friends visiting singapore  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1171032529161207808
  (resurfaced 3× · 6 likes · 2019-09-09 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1171032715191128065)
- @ardensirens (Kinda reminding me of the idea in Thor Ragnarok where he’s like, “I’m so sad I lost my hammer,” and his dad is like, “what are you, the god of hammers? The hammer was just to help you focus your power, it was never the source of it”.  It was in youuu all alonggg)
  (resurfaced 3× · 6 likes · 2019-08-12 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1160721054974693377)
- @fortelabs @Malcolm_Ocean Wrote the post! Trawled through lots of interview material for this: https://t.co/m0o8GyM4uX
  (resurfaced 3× · 6 likes · 2018-05-25 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/999893113928761345)
- These fonts look very similar don’t they...) it looks similar to Impact, but not quite 🤔 anybody know it off the top of their heads?
  (resurfaced 3× · 6 likes · 2019-03-15 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106518874445340674)
- If you enjoyed Interstellar and you haven't watched Contact, you should really watch Contact
  (resurfaced 3× · 6 likes · 2014-11-10 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/531658700289626112)
- OK I made some pretty fantastic progress today!  1- I've gotten all of my links off of Evernote, so now they're all in Notes, with some on Things  2- I've bucketed them into these categories – each of these are effectively research projects for entire books worth of content
  (resurfaced 3× · 6 likes · 2018-12-23 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076938213615316992)
- Traversing the city’s urban landscape is a *joy*. It’s poetry in motion. It’s so responsive, intuitive, organic, exhilarating
  (resurfaced 3× · 6 likes · 2018-10-26 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1055889260765634560)
- @browserdotsys @k1ug3 @PereGrimmer Yup. In a sort of adjacent vein, a lot of the “authentic Asian experiences” all over Asia basically have been remade to suit Westerner’s expectations. Also true for Irish pubs, a fake aesthetic exported around the world, and now pubs in Ireland have modified themselves to match
  (resurfaced 3× · 6 likes · 2018-09-06 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1037841097051918341)
- (Cw: genocide) Humanity can be worse than hell. This led to the Halabja chemical attack - up to 15,000 civilians injured and killed, part of the broader genocide against the Kurdish people - 50k to 182k dead, a year before I was born. Babies and children succumbing to mustard gas https://x.com/historic_ly/status/1035967678085832705
  (resurfaced 3× · 6 likes · 2018-09-02 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1036122615289536512)
- Violence?? What does some cheerful soccer mum in a suburb have anything to do with violence??  This is the great comforting illusion of the factory-farm-zoo-circus-prison of civilisation. Violence, and the threat of it (incarceration, etc) is how we enforce rules and boundaries
  (resurfaced 3× · 6 likes · 2018-06-27 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1011913305764462592)
- @sharanvkaur
  (resurfaced 3× · 5 likes · 2021-07-07 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1412798304870539264)
- you already know what I'm going to say. The iWalk, while it stores less charge fits nicely in my pocket together with my phone, is light to carry around, and is, for me, the superior product. Importantly, it also doesn't need an extra cable. I have saved friends with this
  (resurfaced 3× · 5 likes · 2019-09-02 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1168420006004027392)
- "If we stop deliberately giving fame to the worst people on Earth, the outcome can only be good." #SomeAssholeInitiative
  (resurfaced 3× · 5 likes · 2018-02-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/965922570535972865)
- Thinking this morning about the difference between some of my earliest friendships and some of my more recent ones, and how and why the latter ones seem “better” https://x.com/visakanv/status/1049516227083698177
  (resurfaced 3× · 5 likes · 2018-10-10 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1049884877502464000)
- @dcurtis I'd bet against it, because 8 is a lucky number in China.
  (resurfaced 3× · 5 likes · 2017-05-16 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/864361892931747844)
- A mood
  (resurfaced 3× · 5 likes · 2018-02-06 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/960817634366210049)
- @reddy2go @impactology I’ve been on it since 2017 https://mastodon.social/@visakanv
  (resurfaced 3× · 4 likes · 2022-11-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1588865808427782144)
- "Mother, can't we move someplace where there isn't any sky?"
  (resurfaced 3× · 4 likes · 2022-01-27 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1486769141604229124)
- My own band – Armchair Critic. Wish we'd taken more photos and videos
  (resurfaced 3× · 4 likes · 2017-11-24 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/934170345543569408)
- hahaha in 2014 I made a spreadsheet to analyze song title word counts. I fucking love this nerd.  Chandelier Latch Maps Loyal Habits Summer Anaconda Bailando Burn Wiggle Roar Classic Don't Sing Radioactive Trumpets Animals Dirt Shower Animals Lifestyle Brave Birthday Bartender
  (resurfaced 3× · 4 likes · 2018-08-02 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1025032213832683522)
- @tylerfugazzie @cavepainting @vgr Carl Zimmer (great science writer) talked about this once and it's always stuck with me https://t.co/DLsaaXcA34
  (resurfaced 3× · 4 likes · 2018-02-06 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/960713698598797313)
- Today's commute read: Ex Libris, by Anne Fadiman. A book about a person who loves books
  (resurfaced 3× · 4 likes · 2018-01-25 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/956378871590350848)
- @Drake_Works everything is a remix! excited for you  watch this if you haven't:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc
  (resurfaced 3× · 3 likes · 2019-12-22 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1208694810996957186)
- @maiab I do wanna say that while it's very hard to find people you can be very real with, it's worth crawling through broken glass to find them – because once you find those goddamn unicorn humans, they have you recalibrating your entire social reality https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084064545012760576
  (resurfaced 3× · 3 likes · 2019-10-06 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1180936007669043200)
- @TheAnnaGat Mischief Capital
  (resurfaced 3× · 3 likes · 2019-08-25 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1165441284028264448)
- Been watching several videos and interviews with @corybarlog and the love for storytelling really comes through. The pacing, the subtext, the framing - the use of silences, the reverence for objects, spaces, meaning - deservedly GotY https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093088898358497280?s=21
  (resurfaced 3× · 3 likes · 2019-02-10 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094495014866960384)
- 4. It ain’t the work of a Wachowski if you ain’t strapped to a hospital bed by reassuring people who just want to wipe your brain https://x.com/visakanv/status/1003782810270756864?s=21
  (resurfaced 3× · 3 likes · 2018-12-29 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078950552644382721)
- @eigenrobot @vgr @mattguttmanorg I'm imagining something more... "technotronic". sawtooth synthwave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3NoYyNKSXQ
  (resurfaced 3× · 3 likes · 2018-11-29 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068163770747301891)
- I'm happy to bet anybody $100 that he's not running for president, say up to 5 people. He's running for Chief Community Manager of Earth https://x.com/BillDixonish/status/892909444471808002
  (resurfaced 3× · 3 likes · 2017-08-04 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/893467001028362246)
- Aug2023 subscriber AMA, ask me anything https://x.com/visakanv/status/1677314034222387200
  (resurfaced 3× · 2 likes · 2023-08-11 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1689919714833858560)
- S vs X
  (resurfaced 3× · 2 likes · 2020-03-31 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1244961578325168133)
- TIL there’s a show on Sun TV (in India) where the host literally talks about whatever is trending on WhatsApp, YouTube, Twitter etc
  (resurfaced 3× · 2 likes · 2018-07-08 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015958865798578177)
- SMRT LEVEL UP http://t.co/u0nebHRZ1A
  (resurfaced 3× · 2 likes · 2013-12-13 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/411380617616449536)
- The new Google brand identity is so masterfully done, I dare say that anybody who dislikes it misunderstands design https://x.com/GoogleDesign/status/638743868905754624
  (resurfaced 3× · 2 likes · 2015-09-01 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/638776595419955201)
- alright! anyhow delete people, now i'm following the same number of followers i have- 373. lol. coincidence
  (resurfaced 3× · 1 likes · 2012-11-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/266238155265540096)
- Did you consent to being born?
  (resurfaced 3× · 1 likes · 2018-12-13 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073042434618155009)
- "Son, I don't farm half as good as l know how already." Why are we like this? Why do we not act in accordance with the truths we know to be true? Can we do better? How? Is that desirable? Worthwhile? Is there a meta-truth that needs internalizing? Or is it mindless resistance
  (resurfaced 3× · 1 likes · 2018-01-30 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/958273572425777153)
- actually thinking on it more I am probably weirdly/unusually well-adapted to “how do you broadcast a lot of your inner self online without getting pwned” and there’s probably stuff I take for granted as obvious that would be very useful for some people to hear
  (resurfaced 3× · 0 likes · 2021-09-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1442250739313623044)
- Honestly I’m still not done geeking out about how great Twitter is. Any tweet from any thread can be reused in any other thread,,, do you guys realise how wild that is??? It allows you to create your own cinematic universe
  (resurfaced 3× · 0 likes · 2019-02-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1100305722359705600)
- Some poignant comments from a youtube video of the Terranigma soundtrack – this game made such a deep impression on me, and it's nowhere near as commonly discussed or played as the other games  Also I think I would now swap out GGX2 for Horizon Zero Dawn (in previous tweet)
  (resurfaced 3× · 0 likes · 2018-11-01 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1058027733412831232)
- every act of avoidance reinforces avoidance as a strategy, and consecrates the thing avoided as A Thing To Be Avoided
  (resurfaced 2× · 3,127 likes · 2025-12-11 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1999158733423919349)
- protip: whenever you feel compelled to say “that sounds boring”, swap it for “what do you like about it?” and watch your social life flourish as people begin to enjoy your company https://x.com/rebeccamadison_/status/1688385682316931072
  (resurfaced 2× · 3,004 likes · 2023-08-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1688390261033029632)
- in 2019, Scott Alexander wrote a review of The Body Keeps The Score, with an initial conclusion of "Overall, I was not too impressed with this book."  A few weeks later, he updated the review with an anecdote of a patient's recovery that IMHO is more interesting than the review
  (resurfaced 2× · 2,709 likes · 2023-04-30 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1652548739876409344)
- a thing that took me 5+ years to learn, maybe closer to 10 years – and I resisted it for a long time – is something very foundational about attention sovereignty.  basically you begin with the premise that your attention is extremely valuable and you allocate it like a VIP
  (resurfaced 2× · 2,657 likes · 2023-07-31 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1686133491342458880)
- Japanese art professor visits the Sagrada Familia, is so awestruck that he moves there, learns Spanish, converts to Catholicism, gets baptized, and impresses everyone so much that they make him Chief Sculptor  now that’s what you call committing to the bit https://x.com/trungtphan/status/1711522747116126260
  (resurfaced 2× · 2,406 likes · 2023-10-10 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1711582876624707700)
- i once went down a deep rabbithole out of curiosity to learn more about this lady – her name is Crystal Thierry, she recently-ish turned 40 years old, she strikes me as funny and smart and sort of a proto-egirl from the early 2000s before everything got algo-optimized
  (resurfaced 2× · 2,154 likes · 2023-06-07 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1666441329037942787)
- acquaintance: I wanna write but I don’t wanna write mediocre stuff  me: first write it mediocre. then write an explainer articulating precisely how and why it is mediocre. this explainer will strongly imply how to make it non-mediocre. and from there you can write the good stuff
  (resurfaced 2× · 2,133 likes · 2024-02-03 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1753834833636360562)
- @yelyahwilliams @brianrobertjone @LindseyByrnes next album
  (resurfaced 2× · 2,105 likes · 2020-07-14 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1283083092232507397)
- what are the slept-on movies from the 90s? so lets set aside the big names like titanic, jurassic park, lion king, forrest gump, the matrix, etc.  my vote is for Contact (1997) – my favorite scifi film yet, and the reason I couldn't fully enjoy Arrival, Interstellar, Her, etc
  (resurfaced 2× · 1,955 likes · 2024-08-04 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1820104543587451190)
- I have several variations of the following recommendation:  1. practice hanging out with people without talking about The Thing that you’ve made Central in your life
  (resurfaced 2× · 1,912 likes · 2023-03-08 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1633333986280833029)
- few things are as unwelcome as a solution to a problem that people build an identity out of having
  (resurfaced 2× · 1,634 likes · 2023-11-03 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1720242568016142646)
- 🦖 🦕 !
  (resurfaced 2× · 1,510 likes · 2023-11-02 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1719929357102416160)
- messes are clutters not just of things, but of intentions. that's what really makes them difficult to tidy
  (resurfaced 2× · 1,471 likes · 2024-03-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1772636036465656051)
- here's a really simple and powerful thing that few people do  1. make a list of all the times you've had a conversation with someone that left you feeling energized, excited, empowered, encouraged  2. be deliberate about talking to those people again  that's it
  (resurfaced 2× · 1,202 likes · 2021-07-30 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1420957385791709191)
- 2yo: want lollipop! want yoghurt! want basket!  me: daddy wants some peace. how about some peace  2yo: [pauses to think]  2yo: no… no no…
  (resurfaced 2× · 1,182 likes · 2025-11-17 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1990268959753740781)
- I am once again asking y’all to watch this guy go from like a 5 to a 9 in sex appeal in seconds https://x.com/visakanv/status/1458096242827964435
  (resurfaced 2× · 1,167 likes · 2022-03-30 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1509050256998105088)
- how it started vs how it's going  #1 vs #391 https://x.com/billyisyoung/status/1328059097783160838
  (resurfaced 2× · 1,141 likes · 2023-09-29 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1707614779584757894)
- if Jeff Bezos gave up his entire networth, you could run the US military for ~90 days  If you liquidated both Bill Gates & Elon Musk too, you could get to maybe ~180 days  Throw Zuck into the grinder & you squeeze out another ~45 days  You’d still need ~$200B+ to finish the year
  (resurfaced 2× · 969 likes · 2020-08-08 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1291967809438642176)
- if one person who writes a poem or story that moves me to tears, tells me to take cold showers and do all that morning routine bro shit, I would do it  up until now, afaik, those two circles have not intersected
  (resurfaced 2× · 850 likes · 2023-01-03 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1610209681519292418)
- people who are good at dealing with failure don’t think of failure as failure
  (resurfaced 2× · 824 likes · 2023-07-28 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1684880622819635200)
- AI will kill visual arts in roughly the same way digital cameras and smartphones killed photography
  (resurfaced 2× · 789 likes · 2022-04-08 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1512253408660516864)
- “Anytime I hit, it is correct.” - Dizzy Gillespie
  (resurfaced 2× · 782 likes · 2023-03-20 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1637611454911356929)
- warning: if you think about this long enough you might get a bolt of clarity about all of social reality https://x.com/indigogloves/status/1437172951569379329
  (resurfaced 2× · 713 likes · 2021-09-13 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1437538491047440386)
- there’s only like 3 main pieces  1. iterate as cheaply and prolifically as possible until you get to product/market fit, cultivating taste in the process 2. solve for distribution 3. git gud at managing your psychology so you keep doing 1 and 2 without burning out https://x.com/hamishdoodles/status/1690348698910228481
  (resurfaced 2× · 688 likes · 2023-08-12 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1690401650849316865)
- A thing my ex-boss got me to meditate on (not literally, but I think about it a lot) is that product-market fit heals and forgives almost everything. The highest order bit is almost the only thing that matters by a long shot, to a dramatic and unintuitive degree https://x.com/rkesteva/status/1382003417632055296
  (resurfaced 2× · 684 likes · 2021-04-14 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1382128300189839360)
- “it’s a politically meaningful act to have a personal website”
  (resurfaced 2× · 682 likes · 2022-09-19 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1571851741553102848)
- I’m always fascinated by how people partition and label time in their mjnds. For a lot of people, forever/always is 3-7 years
  (resurfaced 2× · 667 likes · 2024-08-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1820619591774765249)
- [friendly subtweet] I'm rooting for you to one day embody the solution to the problems you've gotten so good at describing over and over again
  (resurfaced 2× · 660 likes · 2022-07-02 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1543314691795349504)
- hangin’ out at my local airport for no reason
  (resurfaced 2× · 658 likes · 2022-04-16 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1515256958986596361)
- haters do the best marketing
  (resurfaced 2× · 652 likes · 2022-01-03 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1477974293224980480)
- Taleb said there are 3 addictions- heroin, carbohydrates and monthly paychecks  I’d like to propose a 4th: moral superiority
  (resurfaced 2× · 636 likes · 2021-03-31 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1377183259730223105)
- Dear @netflix, can we have a show with @terrycrews and @TheRock lifting heavy-ass weights then discussing heavy-ass feelings?  RT if you would watch this
  (resurfaced 2× · 633 likes · 2019-01-08 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082447759460847617)
- imagine everybody in your life telling you can’t do something… and then you do it  while this is glorious, it also means you will never fully be able to trust anyone again
  (resurfaced 2× · 615 likes · 2022-12-01 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1598283484270776320)
- wife: it's interesting how we're different  wife: i ‘think’ intuitively but i *make decisions* with a process  me: and I think procedurally, and make decisions intuitively?  wife: you think so good! but you make decisions like a wtfsaurus
  (resurfaced 2× · 602 likes · 2018-06-18 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1008637459960172544)
- you can really just encourage every motherfucker you meet to pursue their dreams, and watch them flourish along every dimension. it's perfectly legal
  (resurfaced 2× · 601 likes · 2022-01-02 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1477786565925490688)
- "oh, yeah. the reason nobody's looking out for you is because they don't believe you could possibly exist, statistically speaking. this isn't your fault. because of the lemon market problem. you're like a functional sports car in a scrapyard. you're a rounding error to them..."
  (resurfaced 2× · 597 likes · 2023-04-25 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1650885779214962688)
- looking back, one of the major anxieties of my teens and most of my 20s was caused by this unhelpful, unhealthy belief that, if I had made mistakes, failed to meet my obligations, then I didn't deserve to have any fun or joy whatsoever until I sorted out all my shit
  (resurfaced 2× · 585 likes · 2022-01-01 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1477212321457999872)
- the more I learn about people the harder it gets to make fun of anyone, condescend to anyone, etc. It’s so annoying. never learn about anyone ever. everything is just tragic backstories it’s a trap
  (resurfaced 2× · 575 likes · 2022-03-20 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1505475798307803136)
- I think/feel like 60-70% of success, maybe 80%+, is not disqualifying yourself in the eyes of the people who can lift you up to where you want to be. the strange, funny part of social/status regulation is people are disqualifying themselves *constantly*, compulsively
  (resurfaced 2× · 573 likes · 2022-08-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1560750118860533760)
- when all information is perfectly catalogued and perfectly analysed by perfect tools that present them perfectly to us at the perfect time in the perfect way…  …we will finally see how it was actually courage we needed all along, more than information
  (resurfaced 2× · 558 likes · 2023-10-03 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1709202667074097288)
- everybody is fluid, complex, multi-faceted, internally conflicted  real friends n lovers honor this with grace  enemies n haters try to pin you down into some narrow, rigid position, some hill you’re supposed to die on. they want u to be 1 thing… n it’s natural to get defensive
  (resurfaced 2× · 556 likes · 2022-09-25 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1573908463536599040)
- 
  (resurfaced 2× · 547 likes · 2021-09-29 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1443197884275453954)
- consider not doing free marketing for what you claim to despise
  (resurfaced 2× · 530 likes · 2022-07-22 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1550457969527377920)
- protip: if you see someone who seems to be having an antsy, edgy, anxious time, and you want to help them relax, saying "stop being so tense, be yourself, relax, chill" is IME consistently one of the worst things you can do. I've seen this play out hundreds of times, always bad
  (resurfaced 2× · 522 likes · 2021-04-08 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1379955280411246599)
- one of my talking points is "I believe philosophy departments should be 50% staffed by children" – and a common response is that people think I'm doing a sort of silly and cute joke bit to make people laugh. but I am not. I am being absolutely serious
  (resurfaced 2× · 517 likes · 2021-02-25 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1364884506021294081)
- getting insulted is the price of admission for having any kind of genuine opinion about anything that matters + getting it heard at any sort of meaningful scale
  (resurfaced 2× · 508 likes · 2022-01-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1479193624457867265)
- 6. You cannot bully people into becoming better people, because what they learn from it is that bullying is how things get done.
  (resurfaced 2× · 499 likes · 2020-11-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1330989616199962624)
- people are really impressed by any plan that has more than 2 steps. first they tell you it’s hubris and/or impossible, then when you get it done some people call it luck, others call it genius. imo it’s none of those things, not much. it’s regular 2d chess
  (resurfaced 2× · 488 likes · 2023-08-16 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1691792551265906726)
- a thing I like to do after watching a movie or a tv show is to watch interviews with the actors. with comedies, is that you see how actors often have much more expanded awareness when they're not playing comedic roles. they perform "collapsed awareness" to demo low-status
  (resurfaced 2× · 482 likes · 2022-04-21 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1517163100104916993)
- reading is hallucination; ie it is a creative act. you look at a bunch of squiggles and symbols and you imagine what they represent.  no two readers imagine precisely the same thing, for their imaginations are shaped by their respective personal histories, experience, culture
  (resurfaced 2× · 478 likes · 2023-05-21 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1660160026269601793)
- wife: I don’t know how to live any more, can you let me die  me: wtf no I just bought pizza  wife: *laughing* you can’t just keep buying pizza  me: and garlic bread
  (resurfaced 2× · 471 likes · 2018-05-17 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/997088943454633985)
- one of my favorite comedians rn is taylor tomlinson – on top of being really smart and funny, her impression game is underrated, she has this tremendous ability to accurately represent people's emotional states in microexpressions and gestures
  (resurfaced 2× · 463 likes · 2023-04-04 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1643189407808393216)
- waking thought: the fact that people ask each other for nudes when there are infinite nudes free on the internet is supporting evidence for the argument that a magic ai chatbot will not replace human interaction, however good it is
  (resurfaced 2× · 463 likes · 2022-04-03 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1510454021420576771)
- watching a vid about tummy time for newborns and it's so wild to consider the newborn's experience, like. insane chaos of light and colors and sound, and then your mom or dad gets right up in your face like a god  like in some ways this is what it's like being a few days old
  (resurfaced 2× · 461 likes · 2023-09-24 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1705873188641739134)
- a corollary to "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is that a skilled beholder who communicates what he sees can single-handedly increase the amount of beauty in the world
  (resurfaced 2× · 459 likes · 2023-01-14 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1614343811077111808)
- this is one of my favorite tweets ever written, but I have a conundrum when sharing it. the OP deleted it themselves, so I cropped their name out. they're still active. so I assume they don't want to be connected to it, associated with it. but goddamn, it's a banger tweet
  (resurfaced 2× · 450 likes · 2021-06-25 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1408547651616866305)
- the masculine urge to-
  (resurfaced 2× · 442 likes · 2021-11-27 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1464457787417579521)
- let’s try this again:  most people are knotted in a bunch of ways, largely inherited from mainstream culture, via family, friends & media. this is roughly by design. it’s in some sense what culture is “supposed to do”: minimize negative variance. keep you from going off the rails
  (resurfaced 2× · 441 likes · 2023-07-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1683725305960345600)
- a curious mind and earnest heart, sufficiently networked, can *imagine* wealth into existence
  (resurfaced 2× · 440 likes · 2023-06-21 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1671587100855250944)
- Why does this Lay’s display look like it‘s about to launch a VC-funded remotely-built SaaS messaging platform that’s intuitive, easy-to-use and delivers key insights that help small & medium businesses achieve their goals
  (resurfaced 2× · 439 likes · 2019-03-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1105053843673366528)
- A thing that dickpic-sending dudes seldom understand (or care about) is that for so many women, so often, male sexiness is all about subtext. A forearm in a rolled-up sleeve, a scruffy grin. Subject, not object https://x.com/bimadew/status/1050785907308150784
  (resurfaced 2× · 434 likes · 2018-10-12 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1050787851460173824)
- one of my own sorta hot takes is that nobody has the power that people think they have. politicians? nope. billionaires? nope. zucc? nope. the US military? nope. Xi Jinping? nope. everybody climbs to the top of a precarious pile and realizes oh god oh fuck, god help me
  (resurfaced 2× · 433 likes · 2021-11-01 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1455073639066267651)
- you cannot significantly deviate from the norm without being treated like a deviant, i find this to be one of the simplest and most self-evident truths about socializing that smart people continually seem surprised about https://x.com/visakanv/status/1057549603413716992
  (resurfaced 2× · 405 likes · 2022-08-17 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1559792598310858753)
- wen u scroll thru twitter and a titty appear
  (resurfaced 2× · 403 likes · 2022-07-19 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1549491207998697472)
- whenever people ask things like "your best advice in 3-4 words" etc, I always go with "seek excellent peers", because when you surround yourself with good people, they have a positive effect on everything else in your life. but some people find this directive too vague. "how?"
  (resurfaced 2× · 399 likes · 2021-07-19 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1417201024113135629)
- that is my friend you are talking about
  (resurfaced 2× · 396 likes · 2021-03-21 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1373462608993345537)
- wife: i like your hair  me: aww thanks bb  wife: i wish we were birds. then you could make me a nest out of your hair. and I would be properly seduced. and live in your hair. as your bird wife. in your hair nest.  me: ... I think I'd be into that, yeah  wife: good
  (resurfaced 2× · 396 likes · 2018-07-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1020228634387275776)
- reflecting on the fact that there are more people on earth than seconds in my lifetime has truly relieved me of any sense of obligation to reply to anyone ever again
  (resurfaced 2× · 392 likes · 2022-03-01 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1498474188717264896)
- a sufficiently intimate understanding of failure is indistinguishable from mastery
  (resurfaced 2× · 384 likes · 2023-04-13 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1646494360413016064)
- I’m more interested in solving loneliness than immortality  As the great philosopher Jon Bon Jovi said, I just wanna live while I’m alive
  (resurfaced 2× · 384 likes · 2021-02-28 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1365875045898223620)
- Here’s a maybe-unpopular opinion I have: lots of people end their relationships because they lack the will or the ability to modify their own behavior.  It is easier to start over with someone else than to do the tedious, uncomfortable work of adjusting for each other
  (resurfaced 2× · 382 likes · 2018-12-24 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1077199033855139840)
- it might be boring to hear it but the wisdom in “slow and steady wins the race” is still potent and powerful for anybody who takes the time to really internalize it
  (resurfaced 2× · 372 likes · 2022-11-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1593003696807641088)
- me watching people focus their time and energy on things they do not want to see more of
  (resurfaced 2× · 370 likes · 2022-12-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1606117463137320960)
- sometimes double-negatives can be very helpful  "be yourself" can be endlessly frustrating, but "be not not-yourself" is IMO a much more useful directive
  (resurfaced 2× · 370 likes · 2021-12-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1470008047825162240)
- it’s a very small minority of people who understand the power of focusing on what is good, and encouraging that  looking to expand this crew
  (resurfaced 2× · 366 likes · 2021-01-03 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1345548525229076482)
- “litterbug”, like “personal carbon footprint”, turns out to be another megacorp PR judo move for shifting the blame and responsibility to individual consumers https://x.com/amore_orless/status/1407912760386539521
  (resurfaced 2× · 361 likes · 2021-06-24 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1407981063054323715)
- there’s a good quote about how opportunity gets ignored because it’s disguised as hard work  less commonly appreciated is that opportunity is also disguised as unimportant frivolity  and between the two, I think frivolous things are overlooked more by would-be opportunists
  (resurfaced 2× · 361 likes · 2021-09-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1440815583478509569)
- I love midwit bro and I am proud of him for trying. we're all going to make it bro
  (resurfaced 2× · 355 likes · 2020-12-25 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1342582652814016512)
- Dungeons & Dragons movie is way better than I’d have guessed it could’ve been. Very clever and fun. I enjoyed it more than both Barbie and Oppenheimer actually (and I liked both movies!)
  (resurfaced 2× · 349 likes · 2023-10-15 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1713446333573702041)
- these are some of the better quotes, though still not what i'm looking for  people are really bad at selecting quotes  A people say insightful things, B people quote them (poorly), C people share the most mundane and tepid of those quotes
  (resurfaced 2× · 347 likes · 2018-12-18 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074947406205075456)
- 23. self-loathing requires that you participate in the delusional conceit that you know who you are
  (resurfaced 2× · 346 likes · 2020-11-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1330997070606438400)
- i just thought of a thought that I have that is pretty odd  trusting scientists is a middlebrow thing to do. really stupid people and really smart people both mistrust scientists (for different reasons in different ways) and it's actually challenging to signal you're the latter
  (resurfaced 2× · 341 likes · 2018-12-31 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1079805637561704448)
- have a draft of an essay i've sort of lazily idling on titled "win loops" and i might as well just tweet it out.  funnily, me quoting this tweet (really just to springboard off the phrase "biggest wins", it's almost unrelated to rival's tweet) is itself an example of a win_loop https://x.com/nosilverv/status/1754116677636153641
  (resurfaced 2× · 339 likes · 2024-02-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1754162265702764912)
- 16. never waste a teaching opportunity
  (resurfaced 2× · 337 likes · 2021-10-22 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1451441079434186753)
- the question is fundamentally broken, misframed, designed (intentionally or otherwise) to perpetuate error and failure and despair. "what to do with my life" is not a question to be answered. it's a bug https://x.com/Tjdriii/status/1518733704746647552
  (resurfaced 2× · 332 likes · 2022-04-26 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1518866554695589889)
- 26. hit da bricks!!
  (resurfaced 2× · 327 likes · 2022-04-03 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1510616148370653185)
- Remember when Transformers 2 came out in 2009 and everybody kind of universally agreed (sometimes begrudgingly) that Megan Fox was, at least for a moment, the peak manifestation of human desirability
  (resurfaced 2× · 324 likes · 2020-03-31 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1244834595574439936)
- what people expect spies to look like vs what spies actually look like
  (resurfaced 2× · 323 likes · 2021-01-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1344947151206379523)
- most people, if they saw a 💩 on the sidewalk, would not pick it up and shove it in their friends' faces  interestingly, as a collective we have not yet learned to apply this sensible principle to 💩 on the timeline
  (resurfaced 2× · 322 likes · 2022-06-22 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1539470631775137792)
- my wife is on a call next door... she sounds so professional and polished... fuck she's so hot 😩🥺
  (resurfaced 2× · 322 likes · 2020-05-26 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1265203675678470145)
- The inverse is also remarkably true: telling stories about dealing with resource constraints often quickly reveals that a practitioner really knows what they’re talking about.  (See also: incentive structures, social norms, common mistakes & misconceptions, prices...)
  (resurfaced 2× · 314 likes · 2019-04-02 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113156398869651456)
- looked up the guy, Orny Adams – this was in 2002. He started a yt channel in 2006. most of his videos hardly got any views... until 10 months ago, in 2022, he uploaded a full special that got 3.2M views  when he talked to Seinfeld, he'd been struggling for 3 yrs. took 20yrs more https://x.com/bpoppenheimer/status/1657074620174925824
  (resurfaced 2× · 312 likes · 2023-05-13 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1657178052085039104)
- bro stop focusing on your ideological enemies, ur friendships are dying
  (resurfaced 2× · 311 likes · 2020-12-13 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1338119957897306114)
- 2. Tom Gauld primitive superstition https://x.com/visakanv/status/1332461574179618817
  (resurfaced 2× · 310 likes · 2020-11-30 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1333331819677110272)
- for anybody who has ever felt guilty about owning books you haven't read  i present to you the perfect reframe  (h/t @redcar_tenken) https://x.com/writeclimbrun/status/1448271854007996416
  (resurfaced 2× · 310 likes · 2021-10-15 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1449010227936780293)
- seeing multiple independent instances of people getting annoyed/upset at other people for learning in clunky, imperfect ways makes it much clearer to me why so many people live in chronic fear of trying to learn anything at all
  (resurfaced 2× · 308 likes · 2022-05-06 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1522682608307798017)
- u start to see that casual cruelty is one of the main ways people socialize. I’ve come to believe that cruelty always leaks, it always stains the hand that wields it (if there are any exceptions, it likely involves a containment process that’s dehumanizing in its own way)
  (resurfaced 2× · 304 likes · 2022-08-26 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1562981985890357255)
- many of those who accomplish the inconceivable, are cursed to die attempting the impossible
  (resurfaced 2× · 298 likes · 2022-12-01 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1598286142247297024)
- the future is only gonna get weirder
  (resurfaced 2× · 296 likes · 2022-10-21 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1583499103987986432)
- I seldom articulate this explicitly but one of the cornerstones of my approach to peopling is "no scolding". In fact the more urgent and important it is that I get someone to change their mind/position on something, the more clinical I believe I have to be about not dissing them
  (resurfaced 2× · 296 likes · 2021-02-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1359961255205695490)
- cynicism is a defense against fraud and bullshit, and it's pretty effective at that  the trouble is that you can get so good at it that you defend yourself from anything nice or good happening to you
  (resurfaced 2× · 295 likes · 2023-01-08 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1612160279454023680)
- me, scrolling the timeline and seeing "ayy lmao 🌀⛵️🐉" "focus on what you want to see more of" "do 100 things" "ppl wanna be fuckable more than they wanna fuck" "joke about outcomes you want" "solve for distribution" "optimize for survival"
  (resurfaced 2× · 294 likes · 2023-01-18 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1615681504524533760)
- I always wondered why Actually Successful people don’t talk very much publicly about the details of journeys and paths, and I’ve come to learn that it’s because there are disincentives for this that hit almost everyone *except* frauds - which then perpetuates a hostile commons
  (resurfaced 2× · 293 likes · 2021-02-12 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1360171405304758273)
- 9. Anti-narcissist shaming benefits narcissists (who have no shame, and as such are unaffected by you trying to shame them - they might even enjoy the attention) and hurts everybody else.
  (resurfaced 2× · 291 likes · 2020-11-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1330991780196618245)
- This is a huge part of the premise of my book... man I could probably write my book entirely out of my friends’ tweets https://x.com/becomingcritter/status/1369274783804833796
  (resurfaced 2× · 285 likes · 2021-03-09 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1369288311987077122)
- it’s unpolished on purpose to deter the shine-seekers
  (resurfaced 2× · 284 likes · 2023-03-08 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1633487695316934659)
- I thought this said “the Hater building”
  (resurfaced 2× · 284 likes · 2023-02-23 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1628557061012193281)
- for my homies: I invite u to think about the role you want to grow into, the responsibilities you want to take on, the service you want to do for the world, the friends you want to make, the skills you want to develop  you can become more than you are, over and over again
  (resurfaced 2× · 284 likes · 2022-03-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1504155350999592961)
- yes it can be worthwhile to direct attention to cruel, ugly, terrible things – but the tricky thing is to stay focused on the goal: a more just, kind, equitable world. If one loses sight of that it’s unfortunately easy to get swept up in despair and vindictiveness etc
  (resurfaced 2× · 281 likes · 2021-05-18 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1394777207688466433)
- 70,000, Ask me anything / AMA 🤓
  (resurfaced 2× · 277 likes · 2023-10-11 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1711979058060513413)
- 48. Communication is *fundamentally* lossy. Misunderstanding is the default condition. It’s crazy that we even kinda-sorta understand each other at all!  If we appreciated this properly, we’d all give everybody lots of room to revise all their statements. But the public is insuf-
  (resurfaced 2× · 277 likes · 2020-11-23 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331014519431172096)
- fighting/arguing is a form of intimacy, or shadow intimacy. giving up on it (even with eg a narrow class of belligerent assholes) to pursue a better life means enduring cold loneliness in the interim. to do that you need something to sustain you thru the desert of the unknown
  (resurfaced 2× · 273 likes · 2023-03-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1639114745809887233)
- Crazy Rich Asians and Black Panther are tiny test balloons compared to the massive revolution coming for global pop culture. Kids are being born every day that don't know how to be ashamed of where they're from. Do you know how great Turkish pop music is? https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039572061520183296
  (resurfaced 2× · 273 likes · 2018-10-29 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1056908677054128128)
- I think the phrase “non-profit” is a net negative force in the world
  (resurfaced 2× · 270 likes · 2022-08-07 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1556287881072717826)
- your life is not a thing to do something with, it's not a resource to be allocated efficiently (this itself is known to induce despair), your life is the domain in which you exist  it's not a mathematical equation to be solved with any sort of finality, but a tension to be danced
  (resurfaced 2× · 266 likes · 2022-04-26 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1518867434329239552)
- 33. microdosing
  (resurfaced 2× · 264 likes · 2022-04-30 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1520341751843549184)
- I think I can now say with some degree of confidence that there’s at least $100,000 worth of content sitting around in my tweets just waiting for me to assemble, package and sell it. This is a very conservative estimate
  (resurfaced 2× · 263 likes · 2020-12-27 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1343286341308620800)
- people’s takes on marriage are probably more influenced by the marriages of their parents, extended families and peers than they typically let on in their tweets
  (resurfaced 2× · 262 likes · 2022-01-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1482244143959388163)
- I think about this guy every few months  "Why not someone worrying about us? But I thinking that people don't asking these questions, because people don't wanting to know the answer. People only wanting pretty picture, so they seeing pretty picture."
  (resurfaced 2× · 262 likes · 2019-01-17 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085731010187165696)
- you can at any moment renegotiate everything on your todo list. it's completely legal
  (resurfaced 2× · 261 likes · 2021-10-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1451263267423195153)
- so now my new response is: if you want the books, and you don't have $, write a review of something else i've written or vlogged. I put in my blood/sweat/tears to write those books, if you can't pay with $, you can pay with a little effort
  (resurfaced 2× · 258 likes · 2023-12-07 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1732887997413237009)
- you have to declare a trust bankruptcy. a resentment jubilee. recognise that the approach so far has not worked and that you have the equivalent of a psychic injury that needs treatment and rehabilitation. there is no shame in this.
  (resurfaced 2× · 257 likes · 2021-06-16 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1405257335157624833)
- you are not a bad person, you are just incompetent  former gifted kid types particularly prefer to stew in the misery of perceived moral failure rather than admit incompetence, because the latter violates their self-image
  (resurfaced 2× · 257 likes · 2021-05-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1396399317083070470)
- A fun and interesting bit of colloquial Singlish is the use of “say”. Example phrases include “don’t say me”, “why you say me”, and a funny one I just overheard from some kids: “I’m older than you. I can say you. You cannot say me.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 255 likes · 2023-04-19 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1648635897989169154)
- James Baldwin: “You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 255 likes · 2022-07-30 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1553368456161964032)
- the thing that kills your youtuber dreams is not that you used the wrong camera, or that your lighting was not color-corrected, or that your audio was bad, or that your editing was not snappy...  it's that you stopped making and uploading videos. that's it
  (resurfaced 2× · 255 likes · 2022-04-25 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1518652056760098816)
- by the end of it, if you reflect, review, corroborate, verify and discuss them with others, you will have an incredibly robust... mind? worldview? you will deeply appreciate the nature of human reality in a way that you cannot get from any single book or person or experience
  (resurfaced 2× · 254 likes · 2019-01-21 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087428131768520706)
- in some ways the job of celebrities is to function as theatrical archetypes for people to project their internal conflicts onto
  (resurfaced 2× · 253 likes · 2022-11-13 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1591624936892039172)
- meditation to me is about learning to become a native of your body, rather than feel like an unwanted guest in it
  (resurfaced 2× · 253 likes · 2021-11-29 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1465281375657873416)
- 47. Children are alien immigrants from a foreign land. This makes them incredibly valuable for their fresh perspective on things. Every philosophy department should be 50% staffed by children. I’m absolutely serious
  (resurfaced 2× · 250 likes · 2020-11-23 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331013666813034496)
- how about this for my maybe spicy-ish late night take  to be successful as a bad mf feral free agent you need to be able to hold about 4-7 things in your mind simultaneously  and if you can't do that then you either need to expand capacity or probably be a follower of some sort
  (resurfaced 2× · 246 likes · 2022-12-13 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1602787427760111616)
- was clicking around pinterest and stumbled upon these remarkably contemporary-looking portraits of presumably wealthy people from around 2,000 years ago in Roman Egypt  she fine!! and how did he trim his beard like that back then?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits
  (resurfaced 2× · 245 likes · 2021-10-24 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1452319299146768386)
- 1. Outsiders are capable of seeing things and thinking thoughts that insiders are incapable of. This explains why Cady fought back against Regina, and why startups repeatedly unseat industry incumbents
  (resurfaced 2× · 245 likes · 2018-02-28 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/968916536990683136)
- @plspreeti If you'd like to learn more about other examples of racism in Singapore, or read old discussions and arguments that people have been having for decades now, here's an incomplete list I've put together (because people kept asking me "got racism meh?")  https://t.co/OMYkVOagD8
  (resurfaced 2× · 245 likes · 2019-07-30 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1156175950905692160)
- If I wanted to grow my audience 10x in 3 months, my content schedule would be like  Monday: American politics Tuesday: dating / gender war Wednesday: crypto takes Thursday: antagonise QT fringe elements Friday: Indian politics maybe Saturday: gifted child discourse Sun: incels
  (resurfaced 2× · 244 likes · 2021-08-15 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1426701479973318656)
- one of my big bets is on people who believe in love – goopy, gooey, saccharine sweet love, cheesy, cringey, love. I can be a cynical, dreary bastard sometimes but I try to always return to the ocean of love. I haven't had my coffee yet but I will still mean it after I'm awake
  (resurfaced 2× · 244 likes · 2021-03-22 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1373803399381090304)
- If you didn't already think "this man is a sorcerer", he then goes on to perfectly role-play a sloppy show-off amateur musician! "It's the feel that makes the note work. Get the feel right and you can play anything."  This man's galaxy-brain relationship with music *awes* me
  (resurfaced 2× · 243 likes · 2019-01-19 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086674343843618816)
- being excellent in a narrow domain* allows you to be utterly incompetent in every other domain and you can still be a rich** bitch talking shit  ___ * easier to be moderately excellent across two domains. also, critically, you have to solve for distribution  ** or non-$ capital
  (resurfaced 2× · 242 likes · 2022-06-01 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1531946747290800128)
- it seems to me like many people have been hurt and heartbroken and then it becomes a priority to them to perform “look how little I give a shit haha” as some sort of self-soothing behavior, at the expense of seeking and receiving any real human connection
  (resurfaced 2× · 238 likes · 2022-03-13 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1502924632067739648)
- Have you ever noticed how other people are so wrong about so many things?  If you write stuff down, and revisit it, you can notice this about yourself, too.  And the cool thing is, while you can't address other people's errors, you can address your own. ❤️💪🏾🔥
  (resurfaced 2× · 238 likes · 2022-01-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1478929618451120135)
- I am very good at being lucky, and it is by far the hardest thing to talk about publicly https://x.com/nvpkp/status/1565314771859259394
  (resurfaced 2× · 237 likes · 2022-12-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1601968742141136897)
- 75. You can increase your exposure to luck.  You can improve your odds by taking random walks (literally and figuratively), and by paying attention to the peripheries. Have a public body of work, which is like a spiderweb that catches the attention of people looking for you
  (resurfaced 2× · 237 likes · 2020-11-24 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331047261908811776)
- Circling back: why even bother with the pain of defeat when you can avoid it? You never signed up for life  I think it boils down to the company. Do you want to be around people who are running from the pain, or towards it?  My ethics is derived from my desire for good peers
  (resurfaced 2× · 237 likes · 2018-06-07 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1004559829384376320)
- wife took this pic of me (left) and i cant get over happy i look. 😍🥰 contrast with this other pic from almost a decade ago that, when I took it, it didn't even occur to me that I was stressed/unhappy/tired etc 😫
  (resurfaced 2× · 233 likes · 2022-10-06 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1578088156217634816)
- decided I’m gonna listen to all 500 albums on Rolling Stone’s top 500. Starting with #3, The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966). Kinda surprising to me how there are 13 songs in under 36 minutes, 10 of those songs are under 3 minutes each
  (resurfaced 2× · 231 likes · 2024-07-14 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1812311006573740092)
- @powerbottomdad1 even 5000% better feels like a lowball. that's like expecting to get $100 and getting $5000. this is more like expecting to get $100 and finding out that god (or "the universe" if you prefer) loves you and is glad you are here
  (resurfaced 2× · 231 likes · 2024-04-16 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1780276984196759593)
- an interesting pattern I’ve noticed in my DMs is how many people berate themselves for “being stupid” when actually what they need is not intelligence but courage
  (resurfaced 2× · 231 likes · 2021-08-31 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1432624475728605189)
- 94. If you’ve had to declare trust bankruptcy in yourself (I’ve been there), the way out is to start with really small wins. “I’m going to drink a glass of water now” → do it. Trust is built like courage: lots of little baby steps. Eventually you can do cartwheels & backflips
  (resurfaced 2× · 231 likes · 2020-11-24 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331072272329707521)
- what will it take to help people see that perpetuating the "ha ha, man insecure about penis" meme makes the world worse off  this is one interesting way that women repeatedly and consistently act as gleeful agents of the patriarchy https://x.com/goldengateblond/status/1083954857885675520
  (resurfaced 2× · 229 likes · 2019-01-12 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084155166100602880)
- I can't get enough of this 😂  precious, precious energy  krishna is the peak image of a lover in love, serving and tending to his beloved, without making it about conquest or ego. look at how happy and blissful she is, always  tell your sons this
  (resurfaced 2× · 229 likes · 2018-09-20 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042919594216706048)
- sometimes my job as a marketing consultant is really just to go into people's stuff and say "look at all this good stuff you already have, why is this good stuff buried so deep where no one will see it, just take it and put it on the front page"  and people are like oh shitttt
  (resurfaced 2× · 227 likes · 2019-11-15 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1195206829539676161)
- if you write words down you can read them later https://x.com/vgr/status/1434983185645916160
  (resurfaced 2× · 226 likes · 2021-09-07 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1435162967356567555)
- @darksidebaybay What does it mean to be too dark to date someone? How does that work
  (resurfaced 2× · 224 likes · 2018-07-06 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015186763667550208)
- Bojack Horseman Season 5 does an amazing thing that Rick and Morty hasn't quite been able to do yet re: the glamorization/normalization of dysfunctional behavior
  (resurfaced 2× · 222 likes · 2018-09-15 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1040922059860111360)
- i saw a tiktok recently that's almost an infohazard in how accurately it portrayed subtle mean girl bullying – the bully doesn't even SAY a single mean thing at ALL, she simply feigns interest in the poor victim while laughing to herself / aside with her friends
  (resurfaced 2× · 221 likes · 2022-01-09 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1480070380563824642)
- I’ve had IRL conversations with thousands of people at this point and I’ve almost never met anybody who didn’t have interesting things to say. This includes time in the military where I hung out with people completely outside my usual social circles
  (resurfaced 2× · 219 likes · 2022-06-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1539447264979980288)
- a common question people ask about marriage is "aren't you afraid you're going to get bored of the same person?"  there are layers to this – the fear, the boredom, "the same person"  I suppose I'd start by asking, do you worry about getting bored with yourself? some yes, some no
  (resurfaced 2× · 218 likes · 2020-11-10 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1326194461861240833)
- i have an essay draft making fun of 'how to spice up your relationship' – people think it's about toys and lingerie but it's really about exposing vulnerable bits of your psychology to one another. you can love someone for decades and marry them and still have huge blind spots
  (resurfaced 2× · 216 likes · 2018-05-23 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/999144827567595522)
- TIL that Brazillian doctors have been researching using tilapia skin for treating burns. As someone who burned his hand pretty badly as a kid, and who has handled these fish, I'm like, holy shit. that makes perfect sense. I can totally see/feel how it must work
  (resurfaced 2× · 215 likes · 2022-01-14 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1482090600199749633)
- sometimes when people ask me something like "how do you deal with your ADHD", they're really asking sth like, "how do you live a normal life despite your ADHD", but the true answer is "I don't live a normal life". I've chosen/designed a life around me, not the other way around
  (resurfaced 2× · 215 likes · 2020-08-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1291329164021100544)
- I think it was Alan Watts who said that laughter and anxiety are both two sides of the same coin. The very serious job of the comedian, as I see it, is to transmute anxiety into laughter. Voltaire I think had a similar perspective
  (resurfaced 2× · 214 likes · 2019-03-21 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108793211244302336)
- THE SINGAPORE PLEDGE  1. S Rajaratnam said "sorry for the delay" 😂  2. "justice and equality will prevail" toned down to "based on justice and equality"  3. somebody (presumably Chinese) added "prosperity"  4. "seek happiness" became "achieve"  5. "helping one another" removed
  (resurfaced 2× · 213 likes · 2018-03-15 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/974187165860093953)
- every act of kindness is a rebellion against a cruel, indifferent world
  (resurfaced 2× · 212 likes · 2021-01-22 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1352504975809671170)
- literally what happened lmao
  (resurfaced 2× · 209 likes · 2022-09-15 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1570291289060683776)
- I deeply admire when a person enjoys their leisure, ie sits on their ass in bliss. profound. beautiful. tremendous
  (resurfaced 2× · 209 likes · 2022-05-02 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1521097957675724800)
- I have to be careful not to meditate too much because when I do I feel like I could fuck the sun
  (resurfaced 2× · 209 likes · 2021-05-02 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1388969431645126656)
- If you’re John Lennon, you don’t want to impress most people. You want to impress Paul McCartney https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153706486586994688
  (resurfaced 2× · 209 likes · 2021-01-01 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1345063568744480768)
- 50. Real optimism is not just a posture but a way of being.  Funnily, a lot of people pretend to be optimistic for social reasons, but aren’t fundamentally optimistic. You can tell by how they act. Optimists truly, casually believe that progress is possible, and act accordingly
  (resurfaced 2× · 208 likes · 2020-11-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331015780469641216)
- I wonder if this is some sort of narrative poisoning, where people watch movies and hear stories where the hero wins because he has the biggest heart, and and he wants it the mostest, and so the universe will rearrange itself for him because, gosh darnit, he's a really good guy
  (resurfaced 2× · 208 likes · 2020-03-05 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1235461480696254464)
- @KolotaTyler @NathanpmYoung @PradyuPrasad
  (resurfaced 2× · 207 likes · 2022-05-24 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1529162577594695680)
- I mean it’s good representation for incels to know that maybe they too can grow up to have self-worth, a beautiful family and do extrajudicial killings https://x.com/danadonly/status/1329515967467069441
  (resurfaced 2× · 207 likes · 2020-11-20 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1329715892427526144)
- and what that looked like, for me, is announcing "I'm going to drink a glass of water now", and then drinking it. Hey, look, I just did 1x thing that I said I was going to do. "I'm going to do 10 pushups now." Hey, that's 2x things. And I earned my trust back, 1 step at a time
  (resurfaced 2× · 207 likes · 2020-08-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1293269939566989317)
- i dont feel like anybody ever talked to me about filters and boundaries in the way that i'd have liked to hear about them  you need quite a lot of info about the world to actually begin to use them in an appropriate & effective way  i wonder if people dont like admitting this
  (resurfaced 2× · 205 likes · 2022-04-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1515232727116939266)
- labyrinth thread  this is a classic 7 circuit labyrinth, a pattern that goes back at least 3,000 years
  (resurfaced 2× · 205 likes · 2021-09-09 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1435915911769120774)
- no time to elaborate rn https://roamresearch.com/#/app/visakanv-public/page/rSO3zjxND
  (resurfaced 2× · 204 likes · 2022-01-09 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1480064495619739653)
- if you get about 100 smart people together with real courage & conviction and commit to 50 years, you can create something that echoes through the ages and shapes humanity forever  much more interesting life goal than buying a yacht and having your kids squabble over inheritance
  (resurfaced 2× · 204 likes · 2021-04-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1384026989946761225)
- today I’m listening to Stevie Wonder’s Songs In The Key Of Life in its entirety. It’s a double album with 21 songs. It won album of the year at the 1977 Grammy’s. Stevie was already popular and successful at this point, this album was considered his magnum opus
  (resurfaced 2× · 203 likes · 2024-07-16 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1813070761198034990)
- I just realized this ("info architecture is hard") also partially explains why it's so much easier to criticize than to make something better. There are a lot of other variables, of course – but until you write a novel, it's hard to understand what a feat even a mediocre novel is
  (resurfaced 2× · 202 likes · 2019-04-13 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1117133035818770432)
- Saying it again for the lovably idiotic brain in my skull:  Extrapolating from my past, I would rather end up living an unsatisfying, underwhelming life that I "didn't really choose", rather than be personally responsible for my actual quality of life  wake up my friend
  (resurfaced 2× · 202 likes · 2018-04-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981662905698365441)
- https://x.com/i/article/2031250688953536513
  (resurfaced 2× · 201 likes · 2026-03-13 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/2032311934989819984)
- it’s very funny to imagine a bunch of serious thinkers gathering in a sleazy, deranged, drunken part of town trying to divine the future of the world while being surrounded by psychosis, desperation, depravity… and then realize this description still falls short of Twitter
  (resurfaced 2× · 201 likes · 2022-09-29 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1575559888737951744)
- I thought I understood procrastination until I found myself procrastinating on replying to clients who text me “Visa, can you send me your PayPal so I can pay you?”  wife: you don’t like money, huh?  me: a study of my revealed preferences would certainly validate that hypothesis
  (resurfaced 2× · 200 likes · 2020-02-15 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1228512596325588992)
- when i was in the military, there was a guy who was medically mentally handicapped. a 19 year old with like 7 year old intelligence, ish. he didn't technically have to serve, but he wanted to. so they gave him like an admin/logistics role, simple stuff. and you know what
  (resurfaced 2× · 199 likes · 2022-04-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1517919160810229760)
- I have an *insane* work ethic- but it’s extremely irreverent, unruly, disobedient. It follows its own internal compass and refuses to be controlled by anyone, including/especially me  When I said this at 17, it sounded like I was making excuses  When I say it at 29, people listen
  (resurfaced 2× · 199 likes · 2019-06-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1136894129009336320)
- 3. Being a real potential threat to the top dog in a given context will lead to them subsuming you. This explains why Regina assimilated Cady into The Plastics, &why Twitter acquires the best tweet-aggregating apps before discontinuing them. Also why Wall St buys the best lawyers
  (resurfaced 2× · 199 likes · 2018-02-28 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/968918601653673986)
- Why does this photo look like @askyatharth is my and @jessicamalonso’s son
  (resurfaced 2× · 198 likes · 2022-08-04 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1555072123890061312)
- my archives are full of hundreds of things like this  my wife be like
  (resurfaced 2× · 198 likes · 2021-06-25 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1408548162395013124)
- Everybody who’s praised Arcane is right. First episode is excellent. Great writing, great worldbuilding, startlingly standout quality, good classic tropes delivered with tremendous heart. Enjoyed S1E1 I think more than some entire seasons of other shows, some entire video games
  (resurfaced 2× · 198 likes · 2021-12-22 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1473645854334488576)
- "I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. [...] I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. [...] some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer."  https://x.com/PrinceVogel/status/1435692187497476099/
  (resurfaced 2× · 198 likes · 2021-09-08 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1435697014738604032)
- an underrated quality of babies and young children is that they give other people an excuse – including total strangers! – to collaborate in an impromptu production of “let’s help this kid have fun”
  (resurfaced 2× · 196 likes · 2021-05-30 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1398827182902763523)
- Y’know how there’s a phrase that’s like “god laughs at your plans” - I think enlightenment is simply when you laugh back (heartily, not cynically) in the face of god. Babies are born enlightened and we collectively conspire to spook and scare them into becoming people
  (resurfaced 2× · 196 likes · 2020-12-28 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1343456919084703746)
- I believed this at 17, as a scared and nervous teenager, & I believe it more strongly now as a moderately accomplished adult: if you want to make an interesting living outside of the classic guilds (law, medicine, etc), the most important thing to do is cultivate taste, publicly
  (resurfaced 2× · 196 likes · 2018-07-07 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015476856886214656)
- i thought this one was the most impressive- notice the way she holds her shoulders differently, puts her weight on her feet differently etc
  (resurfaced 2× · 195 likes · 2025-05-05 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1919297745677963563)
- in awe at how scott alexander memed monster truck buddhism into existence
  (resurfaced 2× · 195 likes · 2023-01-06 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1611433075875143680)
- I don’t want to live forever, but I would quite like to enter spectator mode post-death and watch how it all plays out. A comments section with other spectators might be amusing.  I basically want to quit being a meatbag and be on Afterlife Twitter 👻
  (resurfaced 2× · 195 likes · 2019-11-03 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1190967030976901120)
- I love it when people QT my tweets to be dunk on me and then their friends buy my ebook
  (resurfaced 2× · 195 likes · 2021-07-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1411432639643279362)
- friend described me as “chill derpy guy who is shockingly well-prepared to go viral at any moment” n I feel very seen  also reminded of an old one from a reply “you’re a bizzare mix of industrious and time-wasting”, loved that one too  “digital dumpster-diving savant” is another
  (resurfaced 2× · 193 likes · 2023-07-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1676484278606249984)
- the most important and valuable things ive learned from people are rarely ever some particular fact or figure. they’re almost always things like attitudes, a way of seeing, a way of moving, adapting, orienting.  each person’s OODA loop enriches my own
  (resurfaced 2× · 193 likes · 2023-07-09 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1678190032564174848)
- "natural talent is just advanced feelings-trusting"
  (resurfaced 2× · 193 likes · 2022-09-20 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1572094390897889280)
- [kanye voice] when i say yr shit is good. it’s bc i think yr shit is good. i’m not being “nice”. when you say “aww that’s so sweet of you” it feels like you’re interpreting my assessment as a social nicety. man fuck u! this is not about ur feelings!! this is abt making good shit!
  (resurfaced 2× · 191 likes · 2022-07-13 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1547334173568147457)
- I think the trait I most look out for in people is the ability to model people other than themselves  Eg I personally hate calendars, routine, structure, etc  but it’s not hard for me to imagine that someone might love it, thrive on it, the same way I love what I love
  (resurfaced 2× · 188 likes · 2022-02-08 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1490905362479779841)
- I thought I understood baby steps but even I continue to underestimate them  It’s worth doing even 1 single pushup and celebrate that
  (resurfaced 2× · 188 likes · 2021-12-08 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1468618152116310020)
- every system - YouTube, Twitter, Hollywood - every marketplace develops a Times Square in the center that serves up bland, predictable pop that the majority of people are vaguely interested in. But you can always find quality stuff just 2 or 3 streets down if you make the effort https://x.com/robertwiblin/status/1418598623315693569
  (resurfaced 2× · 188 likes · 2021-07-24 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1418815042435358726)
- All of that said, if you need a starting question to surface and unearth responses to ask further about, “what is your relationship with X” is my favourite. What is your relationship with fitness? With food? With the internet? Then observe closely https://x.com/b_cavello/status/1125210894235885568?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 188 likes · 2019-05-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1132699884069351427)
- it is critically important and absolutely pointless to oscillate between extremes
  (resurfaced 2× · 187 likes · 2021-04-14 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1382153718301302784)
- Saw a thread where someone insists that chrissy teigen is a bad person by definition, because she is “absurdly rich”. I should probably smile and laugh and let it go, but I am a dumb motherfucker so I will type my feelings out loud on the internet
  (resurfaced 2× · 187 likes · 2020-05-10 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1259322419166056449)
- some of the fun things that can make you a deviant in other people's eyes:  - being curious - having a memory - having a conscience - having a sense of humor - refusing to participate in ritual cruelty (including and maybe especially towards yourself)
  (resurfaced 2× · 185 likes · 2022-08-17 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1559798813677608960)
- periodic reminder that vertical monitors are superior for almost everything except watching horizontal videos
  (resurfaced 2× · 185 likes · 2020-06-07 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269439397599997953)
- Ayyyy new books came all at once
  (resurfaced 2× · 184 likes · 2021-12-18 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1472106548134506496)
- if i had to put some numbers on it I think something like <10% of people hold harsh grudges over superficial trivial bullshit for longer than 7 years  I used to assume it was something like >60%
  (resurfaced 2× · 183 likes · 2022-11-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1595888394202406912)
- it's more complicated than this, obviously. there's politics. close friends can hurt you more intimately than haters. lots of pain and suffering awaits. there are 100s of pages of nuance to explore here, I just wanted to fool around with emojis for a bit.  find the others.
  (resurfaced 2× · 183 likes · 2019-12-19 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1207750203496747009)
- 4. how is it that i seem to be able to have such a great time on the internet while so many people seem to have an unpleasant experience? the shortest answer is in the first line of my bio: that i focus my time and energy on what i want to see more of https://x.com/visakanv/status/1755266812600897542
  (resurfaced 2× · 181 likes · 2024-02-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1755323210042925563)
- its sneaky, people seldom face themselves and be like, "wow I am overwhelming myself with a lot of pressure right now and i am making this not-so-fun for me." usually it's "uhhhh i should be working on my video... i'll get to it later maybe... tomorrow when i'm less tired..."
  (resurfaced 2× · 181 likes · 2022-04-25 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1518652562844831744)
- but that is significantly a matter of *that* person’s intuition.  I understand better now why Victor Wooten says stuff like, I paraphrase, “I cannot actually teach you anything. I can just show you what I do, and it’s really you who teach yourself”
  (resurfaced 2× · 180 likes · 2023-06-06 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1666126523882176514)
- @vgr same energy
  (resurfaced 2× · 180 likes · 2022-09-29 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1575496127062847491)
- if you didn't have any obligations, etc, what's the longest you think you could just stay indoors, with your laptop / phone etc? let's say you can order food in, shower, etc. but no physical human contact with outside world. you can call/text friends, but no meeting
  (resurfaced 2× · 179 likes · 2020-02-05 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1225080754511601666)
- i've been working on dozens of drafts of an essay for a over a decade now, about the smartphone and how it changed the world. putting search and publishing in the hands of everybody is legitimately a printing-press tier revolution and we're still adapting, might take decades more
  (resurfaced 2× · 177 likes · 2022-04-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1518260725801979905)
- War is peace, Freedom is slavery,  https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/20/zuckerberg-says-facebook-has-been-an-innovator-in-privacy.html
  (resurfaced 2× · 177 likes · 2019-02-21 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1098607328532877313)
- I didn’t think that the demon I summoned to consume my enemies would also consume me, cried the demon-summoning sorcerer
  (resurfaced 2× · 176 likes · 2021-01-07 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347082732787036166)
- You can introspect intensely and prolifically for years, and still fail to think a particular thought... until you encounter a particular person who happens to say a particular thing in a particular way that triggers it
  (resurfaced 2× · 176 likes · 2020-07-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1285867424605069312)
- This is a really interesting bit that I bet you’ve never seen unless you’ve watched the entire MIT lecture - Steve (then NeXT CEO) talking about relationships with suppliers
  (resurfaced 2× · 175 likes · 2018-12-19 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075291370959466496)
- this post is going into my GOAT bookmarks, truly excellent. short read. enduring, load-bearing https://x.com/S0ulFragm3nt/status/1758560479247466589
  (resurfaced 2× · 174 likes · 2024-02-16 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1758562044326871097)
- there is no such thing as a real job
  (resurfaced 2× · 174 likes · 2021-08-21 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1429106940097953805)
- 60. Read history! It’s like binge-watching past seasons of current affairs. Everything makes a lot more sense once you know the backstory
  (resurfaced 2× · 173 likes · 2020-11-24 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331026276170121217)
- 9. that is a very American way of looking at it
  (resurfaced 2× · 173 likes · 2021-03-28 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1376198700771385346)
- Whenever I come home to Singapore after travelling, I think...  - my airport is gorgeous - everything is so clean and safe and just works - I miss all the food; I need to eat *everything* - singlish is my language; abrasive and succinct - the infrastructure is almost 'overdone'
  (resurfaced 2× · 171 likes · 2018-08-08 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1027236766112079872)
- 45. why the mask?
  (resurfaced 2× · 170 likes · 2023-03-16 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1636217573233635334)
- some parts of life are kinda-sorta like katamari damacy, that game where you roll a small sticky ball that can pick up bigger and bigger things. if you can't pick up something big yet, it means that you just have to pick up more small things until you have enough mass
  (resurfaced 2× · 170 likes · 2022-05-06 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1522654920536920064)
- in a way I have no choice but to begrudgingly bet on america because my priors demand that I bet on human imagination. which can look really stupid sometimes. but you have to tolerate a lot of stupid to produce genius. and nobody tolerates stupid better than america  fuck, man
  (resurfaced 2× · 170 likes · 2020-11-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1325515052363866112)
- appreciating the differences between these methods is a significant part of being effective at achieving things – incremental is rarely a good idea unless you're really, really certain of what you're doing
  (resurfaced 2× · 170 likes · 2018-11-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061640268485615616)
- a substantial amount of frustration in life seems to happen in response to a mismatch between expectations and reality.  people expect things to be a certain way, and reality does not at all feel obliged to play by our rules
  (resurfaced 2× · 169 likes · 2021-07-20 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1417578495807410176)
- a thing I believe strongly in is the power of using your own words  you don’t actually have to use the vocabulary everyone else is using  and I’m not saying invent unused words, or use really obscure and esoteric ones  but rather just, describe things in your own words
  (resurfaced 2× · 169 likes · 2021-09-22 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1440629240022528005)
- 14 year old Alexander Hamilton in a letter to a friend: “I… may be justly said to build castles in the air… yet… we have seen such schemes successful when the projector is constant.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 167 likes · 2023-02-13 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1625241993436868608)
- I saw someone tweet something like “if you do it right, every breath can be a pleasure,” and this is now my favorite approach to meditation
  (resurfaced 2× · 167 likes · 2022-05-15 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1525745115855089665)
- I want a wardrobe full of men’s shirt remixes of women’s dresses and tops like these
  (resurfaced 2× · 166 likes · 2018-09-01 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035793336081178624)
- it's actually possible to be marked as socially untrustworthy if you tell the truth too much https://x.com/simonsinek/status/1434853138993926144
  (resurfaced 2× · 165 likes · 2021-09-06 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1434883806041759751)
- @paulg An interesting corollary to this that @jiggityk once pointed out: everything that is good & valuable *becomes* obvious on hindsight. Eg it took decades before anybody put wheels on luggage. But *now* it seems obvious. It seems obvious *because* the value is so apparent
  (resurfaced 2× · 165 likes · 2019-03-15 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106494579983839233)
- my sense is that attention sovereignty is the root of all other sovereignty
  (resurfaced 2× · 164 likes · 2023-01-15 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1614561207947776000)
- anthony bourdain, who i loved, had a quote about how his whole life was about avoiding and outwitting the part of himself that wanted to be stagnant, inertia, wasted potential. this is often quoted as inspirational or something  anthony bourdain, who i loved, k*lled himself
  (resurfaced 2× · 164 likes · 2022-07-29 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1552890100857462784)
- friendly subtweet: if someone you don't know is talking about some general thing (say, mainstream communication patterns & habits), and you respond with "Err, I don't notice this pattern in my specific community"), you come across as solipsistic and socially inept
  (resurfaced 2× · 164 likes · 2022-08-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1563366735465836545)
- always cracks me up when defeatist pessimists work really hard to try and sell everybody else on their defeatism, which is a fundamentally optimistic act
  (resurfaced 2× · 164 likes · 2022-03-21 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1506038520401432580)
- Secret Lovers, by Mahdieh Farhadkiaei  https://www.instagram.com/mahdieh.farhadkiaei/
  (resurfaced 2× · 164 likes · 2020-03-08 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1236742458127429632)
- Similarly, I hate the question “why do you love her”. it’s such a reductive request! What I love about my wife is *who she is*, or her *way of being*. I love her because love is the consequence of our coexistence. to give a *reason* would be reductive, itemizing the infinite
  (resurfaced 2× · 164 likes · 2018-10-16 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052182107462594566)
- this is one of my core obsessions, let me queue up some old relevant threads about this  basically, social media creates tremendous opportunities, but hardly anybody stops to really examine this bc most people operate via old intuitions  this is why I tweet like a maniac https://x.com/BecomingCritter/status/1426371582667198467
  (resurfaced 2× · 162 likes · 2021-08-14 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1426378695644569602)
- so often, what I experience and label as tiredness turns out to be something like emotional knottedness
  (resurfaced 2× · 162 likes · 2022-05-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1528349529753661440)
- gay
  (resurfaced 2× · 161 likes · 2023-11-04 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1720656352354370025)
- A couple of friends recommended that I watch the AlphaGo documentary when it came out but I didn’t get around to it until now - and I am in tears, what a beautiful story of humanity in adversity, and of learning, and knowledge, and humility, and discovery
  (resurfaced 2× · 161 likes · 2020-11-20 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1329831620543614978)
- Just learned about Yasmeen Ghauri, a Canadian supermodel of Pakistani descent who walked runways in the 90s. Somehow I'd never heard of her before either
  (resurfaced 2× · 161 likes · 2020-01-26 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1221455914206552066)
- over time, I grow to love the ugly pikachu
  (resurfaced 2× · 160 likes · 2023-12-22 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1738255878091124829)
- cruelty leaks. meanness is just watered down cruelty. you can't be cruel to others without it leaking inwards into yourself. you can try to subvert this by putting up a wall inside yourself, but that's self-alienating, which turns out to be another form of cruelty
  (resurfaced 2× · 160 likes · 2023-04-13 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1646363330360279040)
- yall are really doing this huh 😂😅
  (resurfaced 2× · 160 likes · 2021-08-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1426050559371472896)
- the demons are things like public outrage, appeals to disgust, vengeance, defining and attacking enemy in the name of some righteous moral crusade, etc. it seems like pure upside at the start, your audience is growing so fast, you're so relevant and important and beloved...
  (resurfaced 2× · 158 likes · 2022-08-19 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1560515368216539136)
- been stewing on this for *years* but I'm starting to be clearer about it  the effectiveness of agreeableness and disagreeableness happens in phases, in yin-yang cycles. a person who's disposed towards one likely needs to find a way to skillfully apply the opposite/inverse vibe
  (resurfaced 2× · 158 likes · 2020-07-08 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1280709139824435206)
- ya'll starting to really throw around "cult" and "cult leader" way too lightly. the real defining factor of a cult are things like: you get coerced into cutting ties with other people, you get punished for questioning the leader, you get punished for trying to leave https://x.com/nosilverv/status/1333010809681833989
  (resurfaced 2× · 158 likes · 2020-11-29 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1333068556368445440)
- Here are some of my favorite responses from Twitter re: “what’s the 101 basic rule of your field?”
  (resurfaced 2× · 158 likes · 2020-06-16 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1272729418381721605)
- I think my top request for Twitter now might be a “disavow” feature, something like the ability to flag one’s own tweet as “eh, maybe not”
  (resurfaced 2× · 157 likes · 2021-10-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1445274727359016960)
- classic Singaporean energy to watch Minority Report and think that that’s a good thing that you should actually suggest that your government ought implement, nvm that the movie is literally about how such technology would be abused
  (resurfaced 2× · 157 likes · 2021-10-11 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1447421896190939138)
- always obsessed about the people who aren’t here yet. some of the coolest people we will be privileged to know haven’t even been born. others are wandering around in entirely different places. just think of all the people you love who weren’t a part of your life 10 years ago
  (resurfaced 2× · 157 likes · 2021-10-08 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1446465853059264513)
- “never be looking so hard for something that you fail to see what is there” - there’s a quote like this and I’ve seen people retweet saying “ah it’s about journalism” and others saying “ah it’s about scientific discovery” and “ah it’s about parenting”  ~~It’s about life~~
  (resurfaced 2× · 157 likes · 2019-05-17 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1129213582602752000)
- ah heck i'll just do a thread since i'm here already anyway  1. you don't have to do everything. you can actually focus on the most valuable/important things and generally disregard the rest. might take some trial and error to figure out how, but it's worth trialing
  (resurfaced 2× · 156 likes · 2022-12-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1599454243731431428)
- I don't fault Gaga for that. I love her. I think she's a real artist, a real talent, a real visionary, a real genius. She's in the business of giving people what they want while simultaneously finding a way to communicate her vision as an artist. Her 2009 VMA performance was whoa
  (resurfaced 2× · 156 likes · 2018-09-29 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1045947010950385665)
- (Using the energy from this compliment to talk more about why Make Many Thing is so cool to me)  There is interestingness in repetition that you cannot anticipate until you have the body of work. If you make 100 omelettes in a row you will likely notice nuanced things about them https://x.com/patio11/status/1204618111921451008
  (resurfaced 2× · 156 likes · 2019-12-11 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1204622097428803584)
- The Kailasanatha Temple at Ellora, carved into a cliffside, is possibly the world’s largest monolithic structure.  It was mostly excavated and carved in the mid-700s  I love this sort of rock-cut architecture bc it's such a lovely blend of natural & human  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailasa_temple,_Ellora
  (resurfaced 2× · 156 likes · 2020-07-13 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1282615668446117888)
- periodic reminder that if Steve Jobs pursued a miserably narrow model of utilitarianism, he would never have founded Apple. The spirit of fuckery, the Promethean fire in the eyes of a person who has come alive, a high voltage spirit, is the most valuable commodity on the planet https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113647429197357056
  (resurfaced 2× · 155 likes · 2021-11-25 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1463842876278784006)
- life is cringe n then u die
  (resurfaced 2× · 155 likes · 2022-03-04 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1499685611380232192)
- people often expect someone who understands something to be able to explain it, but the understanding of something sometimes eludes explanation  this is an issue with the bandwidth of communication, and consciousness, but it does not necessarily imply a lack of understanding
  (resurfaced 2× · 154 likes · 2021-09-14 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1437695820409700352)
- I think a lot about YungSnuggie's Fat Ass Theory Of Human Conflict
  (resurfaced 2× · 154 likes · 2019-03-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108333881743142913)
- HEARTBREAKING: man who has committed to lifting weights and getting swole is forced to confront that the cost of each additional hour of nighttime twitter is now measured not only in sanity but also in gains
  (resurfaced 2× · 154 likes · 2020-11-04 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1324067277461811200)
- Crucially- your concept of smart is very much informed by everything you’ve already read. If you’re trying too hard to be smart, you will mostly just remix what you’ve already read. You have to leave the comfort of smart & enter the frontiers of dumb to create *new* smart things
  (resurfaced 2× · 154 likes · 2019-01-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088351030826266624)
- You don't actually need to be extroverted, charming, a sweet talker, witty or anything like that. You can be a total reclusive nerd and still reap the benefits of this realization. The one thing you *do* have to be is NOT AN ASSHOLE  Do you know how powerful "NOT AN ASSHOLE" is
  (resurfaced 2× · 154 likes · 2019-03-24 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1109884945265094656)
- I can't remember where I got this from, but consider how amazing it would be if there were just this one Monty Python-esque scene in the middle of The Lord of The Rings. I would ends it perhaps with Saruman striking the orc dead (Vader style) and then nobody mentions it again
  (resurfaced 2× · 152 likes · 2021-01-18 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1351057444684890116)
- Kiki upstairs Bouba downstairs
  (resurfaced 2× · 151 likes · 2021-10-18 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1450019001866670080)
- 36. are you proud to serve it?
  (resurfaced 2× · 150 likes · 2022-07-23 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1550878829295464448)
- 17. shouldn’t take long
  (resurfaced 2× · 150 likes · 2021-11-24 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1463442394427265025)
- aside: I was reading some Borges recently and I noticed for the first time in months (over a year??) that the olive oil in my kitchen is Borges. I somehow never noticed it before. Similarly there are always things we are missing in plain sight until we start looking out for them
  (resurfaced 2× · 149 likes · 2021-05-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1394779581580775428)
- "my life sucks" is very tiring to respond to (especially when other people's lives are also sucking to various degrees of suck)  "I'm having a rough week, can you tell me about something you're happy about" is WAY, WAY easier to respond to
  (resurfaced 2× · 149 likes · 2017-11-28 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/935377910583640064)
- (I visited my dad in hospital after he had a heart attack (he’s fine now) & he told us he couldn’t sleep bc one of the other guys kept farting all night. To be close to death & then be bombarded with farts... we belly-laughed for 10m and it’s probably my happiest memory of him)
  (resurfaced 2× · 149 likes · 2019-03-21 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108794240027385857)
- Actually, I left out the #1 opinion that people absolutely hate me the most for. Which is that I believe that I have something meaningful to contribute to the world. That I believe that my thoughts matter, that my actions matter. Haters think this is arrogant, pretentious, etc
  (resurfaced 2× · 148 likes · 2020-06-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1274546107201118209)
- @jesswatmiller I’ve shared this with a few friends who’ve appreciated it https://t.co/N17MlJexSh
  (resurfaced 2× · 148 likes · 2018-05-29 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1001302740583178240)
- I’ve found that you can often reduce the volume and intensity of retaliatory reactions you’d get when stating Bad and Wrong opinions by framing it as “a part of me sometimes thinks...”
  (resurfaced 2× · 147 likes · 2020-12-27 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1343277125327966208)
- 
  (resurfaced 2× · 147 likes · 2021-02-26 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1365425509706854402)
- Sex is absolutely a kind of magic - much like writing, and music, and sport. All of those things can also be tedious, soulless, mechanical, and yet. They can also be profoundly intimate, transformative, sources of healing and communion
  (resurfaced 2× · 147 likes · 2019-09-16 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1173731939758460928)
- i'm still reflecting on the fact that some people call trans people mentally ill simply for being trans  it's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the idea of mental illness is used as a tool of social control
  (resurfaced 2× · 147 likes · 2019-01-22 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087723629360615426)
- I think @m_ashcroft would be pleased to know that one of the differences between newbie racecar drivers and professionals is, the professionals expand their awareness and look very far ahead, iirc looking for the next turn instead of just the turn they're currently navigating
  (resurfaced 2× · 146 likes · 2021-12-15 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1471184620213342209)
- I’ve been lucky enough to receive several great opportunities in my life, and the striking thing about all of them is that *none* of them came appended with the statement “this is a great opportunity for you” https://x.com/kieransnyder/status/1205206831083216896
  (resurfaced 2× · 146 likes · 2019-12-13 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1205370327468916739)
- ▲꩜ ▣
  (resurfaced 2× · 145 likes · 2024-06-29 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1806977574372864233)
- the thing about making 100 crappy things is, it's impossible to make uniformly crappy things. at least one thing will be marginally less crappy than the others. and you can examine, investigate, and reverse engineer that, and your ability levels up permanently as a consequence
  (resurfaced 2× · 145 likes · 2021-12-05 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1467439390943186945)
- the older I get, the more radical my casual optimism becomes. turns out I never had to be rah-rah about it, I just had to hold on to it. people just take 10, 20 years to realize that you meant what you said – because everyone around you was saying things they didn't mean
  (resurfaced 2× · 145 likes · 2019-11-22 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1197921615092207616)
- This is how you enjoy life https://x.com/bethanymarz/status/1111260385078927362
  (resurfaced 2× · 144 likes · 2019-03-29 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1111522015159083008)
- just wanna take a moment to remember some of the early OG memes  feel like some of the kids these days might not even know them
  (resurfaced 2× · 144 likes · 2019-02-08 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093985046011142144)
- ok, i'll bite, who was this deleuze guy and what were his good ideas
  (resurfaced 2× · 143 likes · 2021-03-11 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1370132352110784512)
- wife: you mean I can really do that? go on twitter and post thoughts?  me: yup  wife: but, my thoughts are incomplete?  me: all thoughts are incomplete. you can thread them later  wife: what if people ask you what the fuck you’re doing?  me: say, yes, I’d like to find out too!
  (resurfaced 2× · 143 likes · 2019-02-09 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094143782981795840)
- Wife and I are laughing tonight about one of our silliest fights from a week ago - when we review our past fights together, it seems like every fight begins with someone sending the other a fight proposal/request, and the other person accepting it 😂
  (resurfaced 2× · 143 likes · 2019-09-01 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1168130627461206019)
- https://x.com/visakanv/status/1272794864413839361
  (resurfaced 2× · 142 likes · 2023-08-16 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1691794887476392170)
- My ex-boss would lead in celebrating the accomplishments of everyone who left the team. It was reassuring to know that your own exit would eventually be managed with grace- it contributed to a great work environment + alumni network. Once you witness it, you can’t not do it too https://x.com/davidu/status/1243627154262208512
  (resurfaced 2× · 142 likes · 2020-03-28 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1243962148843212800)
- Mum: where are u  Me:
  (resurfaced 2× · 141 likes · 2019-04-24 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1121094623940636673)
- full text of Ellsberg’s notes to Kissinger on receiving clearance above top secret:  “Henry, there’s something I would like to tell you, for what it’s worth, something I wish I had been told years ago. You’ve been a consultant for a long time, and you’ve dealt a great deal with top secret information. But you’re about to receive a whole slew of special clearances, maybe fifteen or twenty of them, that are higher than top secret.  “I’ve had a number of these myself, and I’ve known other people who have just acquired them, and I have a pretty good sense of what the effects of receiving these clearances are on a person who didn’t previously know they even existed. And the effects of reading the information that they will make available to you.  “First, you’ll be exhilarated by some of this new information, and by having it all — so much! incredible! — suddenly available to you. But second, almost as fast, you will feel like a fool for having studied, written, talked about these subjects, criticized and analyzed decisions made by presidents for years without having known of the existence of all this information, which presidents and others had and you didn’t, and which must have influenced their decisions in ways you couldn’t even guess. In particular, you’ll feel foolish for having literally rubbed shoulders for over a decade with some officials and consultants who did have access to all this information you didn’t know about and didn’t know they had, and you’ll be stunned that they kept that secret from you so well.  “You will feel like a fool, and that will last for about two weeks. Then, after you’ve started reading all this daily intelligence input and become used to using what amounts to whole libraries of hidden information, which is much more closely held than mere top secret data, you will forget there ever was a time when you didn’t have it, and you’ll be aware only of the fact that you have it now and most others don’t….and that all those other people are fools.  “Over a longer period of time — not too long, but a matter of two or three years — you’ll eventually become aware of the limitations of this information. There is a great deal that it doesn’t tell you, it’s often inaccurate, and it can lead you astray just as much as the New York Times can. But that takes a while to learn.  “In the meantime it will have become very hard for you to learn from anybody who doesn’t have these clearances. Because you’ll be thinking as you listen to them: ‘What would this man be telling me if he knew what I know? Would he be giving me the same advice, or would it totally change his predictions and recommendations?’ And that mental exercise is so torturous that after a while you give it up and just stop listening. I’ve seen this with my superiors, my colleagues….and with myself.  “You will deal with a person who doesn’t have those clearances only from the point of view of what you want him to believe and what impression you want him to go away with, since you’ll have to lie carefully to him about what you know. In effect, you will have to manipulate him. You’ll give up trying to assess what he has to say. The danger is, you’ll become something like a moron. You’ll become incapable of learning from most people in the world, no matter how much experience they may have in their particular areas that may be much greater than yours.”  ….Kissinger hadn’t interrupted this long warning. As I’ve said, he could be a good listener, and he listened soberly. He seemed to understand that it was heartfelt, and he didn’t take it as patronizing, as I’d feared. But I knew it was too soon for him to appreciate fully what I was saying. He didn’t have the clearances yet.
  (resurfaced 2× · 140 likes · 2024-01-07 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1744057402494996542)
- bowie was tuned in https://x.com/btaylor/status/1085047012788031490
  (resurfaced 2× · 140 likes · 2019-01-15 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085166848826433536)
- "hidden replies" and "highlighted replies" are the same feature
  (resurfaced 2× · 140 likes · 2020-01-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1214446454300794880)
- I suppose the fundamental question that interests me is, how many ebooks do I have to sell to become a bad person? 🤔
  (resurfaced 2× · 139 likes · 2020-05-10 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1259330311533391877)
- resonance over coherence — my new cover pic is a vibetrait courtesy of @this_is_silvia  🌀⛵️🐉💐👾 👁️🌊☀️🎨🎷 🎠🌋⚡️🛕🎇 ❤️‍🔥☯️⁉️🔱🔊 🚪🩻🪬🎞️ 🏗️
  (resurfaced 2× · 138 likes · 2023-03-30 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1641422800656257025)
- it really takes me writing hundreds of thousands of words to find a couple of dozen good phrases
  (resurfaced 2× · 138 likes · 2022-01-01 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1477149773291397121)
- 35. “I am going to wait for the next big thing.”  (via Richard Rumalt’s Good Strategy, Bad Strategy)
  (resurfaced 2× · 137 likes · 2023-02-16 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1626080426019418114)
- Like, run small experiments. Do a pop up store to test to see if people want to buy your stuff before you put down $$$ for retail space. Honestly IMO the reason most businesses fail is because most businesses are started by people with no survival instinct. Do the reading
  (resurfaced 2× · 137 likes · 2021-03-18 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1372623046293344256)
- people start building relationships with each other and it becomes this intricate meshwork, this support system, the opposite of the isolation that you suffered in
  (resurfaced 2× · 137 likes · 2019-12-19 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1207750190188224512)
- one of my new favorite activities is to sit with my newborn son by the local playground and watch the toddlers playing, and really the whole ecosystem of parents and kids in the vicinity  was enthralled by watching how kids make bids with minimal language: “you! follow me! ok?”
  (resurfaced 2× · 136 likes · 2024-01-10 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1745134582801052101)
- before enlightenment, gossip and allocate resources, after enlightenment gossip and allocate resources
  (resurfaced 2× · 136 likes · 2022-10-08 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1578815995871121410)
- excited about getting my first tattoo tomorrow!! these are the pictures I sent my artist. yes I drew on myself with a marker
  (resurfaced 2× · 136 likes · 2022-02-08 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1491056722366328832)
- a thing I surprised myself saying in a podcast recently was that I think that facebook, instagram, tiktok, etc are definitely good things. it's unfashionable to say so in some circles, and it's true that there have been some shocking things like misinformation,
  (resurfaced 2× · 135 likes · 2021-12-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1466123219765633027)
- At heart I’m a much more disagreeable person than people tend to think. I just know from painful experience that productive disagreements require mutual trust and respect.  It takes time and effort to build a shared understanding with people before they’ll really listen to you
  (resurfaced 2× · 135 likes · 2020-11-30 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1333354345425821699)
- communication is always approximation
  (resurfaced 2× · 134 likes · 2023-10-04 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1709467840515096928)
- I have never seen a person scolded into changing their positions in a way that didn't lead to them either coming across as dead-inside or otherwise resentful  I don't want guilty/ashamed/miserable allies
  (resurfaced 2× · 134 likes · 2021-02-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1359962291291127811)
- I sometimes joke "who is this Pewdiepie person, never heard of him" – but the fact is he has published over THREE THOUSAND AND SEVEN HUNDRED VIDEOS. IMO, make and publish 1,000+ of *anything* before you gripe about missing some boat or hype train. Makers are usually busy making.
  (resurfaced 2× · 134 likes · 2019-04-04 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113668521689358336)
- me: I’d like to know about the history of postal services  this lady on youtube: ok let’s start at the beginning...
  (resurfaced 2× · 133 likes · 2020-05-06 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1258046102449778691)
- I’m reminded that one of the things that frustrated me about talking with otherwise smart people about local politics was their absolute refusal to realize that we were all outliers relative to the bulk of the electorate
  (resurfaced 2× · 132 likes · 2021-05-03 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1389138849977102340)
- the meta thing though is that so much of everything is people overcorrecting in responses to faulty assumptions based on wrongful interpretations of events
  (resurfaced 2× · 130 likes · 2023-11-12 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1723745308235202681)
- [guy who’s been stretching hips & hamstrings a lot lately] hmm diving into one’s subconscious is a lot like doing deep stretches that reveal to you how, while you thought you were fine (and what is “fine”, really?) there’s all this wack stiffness and instability lurking beneath
  (resurfaced 2× · 130 likes · 2021-11-28 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1465049106410135553)
- always cracks me up to see memes conveyed via emoji. what other memes can be expressed like this? https://x.com/Knipps/status/1421841674200752130
  (resurfaced 2× · 130 likes · 2021-08-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1421842107145220097)
- fun + funny things that happen when I do marketing consulting for people  1- accidentally becoming their therapist, getting them to eliminate negative self-talk and cruel self-perception  2- accidentally becoming their philosopher bro, getting them to question their meanings
  (resurfaced 2× · 130 likes · 2020-01-13 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1216637363616501760)
- I’m reporting my coworker to HR @sharanvkaur
  (resurfaced 2× · 130 likes · 2020-03-24 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1242348598710292486)
- me: how do you tell a parent, who's asking you sadly why you aren't calling, that you're still recovering from being terrified of them as a kid, and so it's never going to spontaneously occur to you to call them?  friend: like that, what you just said. say that.  me:  me: huh.
  (resurfaced 2× · 130 likes · 2018-05-25 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000107095490871296)
- 2023 tweet  (2022 👇🏾) https://x.com/visakanv/status/1476953517654896642
  (resurfaced 2× · 129 likes · 2023-01-01 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1609656410358550528)
- insults are for friends. I am ok joshing around and talking shit with u fuckers. politeness is for my enemies
  (resurfaced 2× · 129 likes · 2021-02-11 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1359961399141670918)
- 🧘🏾‍♂️
  (resurfaced 2× · 129 likes · 2019-07-23 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153725924006699008)
- A master-class in how to weaponize cutesy white lady positivity (self-love, open your eyes to possibility, mantras, silliness, freedom from judgement) to avoid taking responsibility for the consequences of your actions https://x.com/roseybeeme/status/1014897797462675456
  (resurfaced 2× · 129 likes · 2018-07-10 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1016619818659635200)
- When kids want to be vloggers, youtubers, Instagram hotties, etc - I believe this is part of what they are drawn to. The prospect of people caring about you. The dominant condition of modern civilisation seems to be loneliness. Kids aspire to not be lonely
  (resurfaced 2× · 128 likes · 2019-07-18 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151889722546933760)
- Taste
  (resurfaced 2× · 128 likes · 2019-04-01 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1112762399973498880)
- Reply and I will assign you a moodboard / aesthetic  Priority for mutuals
  (resurfaced 2× · 127 likes · 2019-05-31 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1134455558075895808)
- Cluelessness, innocence, naïveté, privilege - these are all words used to describe the condition of having a flawed and/or low-res model of the world. A child who loses their innocence is forced to develop a higher-res model of some harsh and ugly things
  (resurfaced 2× · 127 likes · 2018-05-22 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998900407605735424)
- Junger grew up in a Boston suburb. "Nothing ever happened in my town that required anything close to a collective effort."  "What I wanted wasn't destruction and mayhem but the opposite: solidarity."  "How do you become a man in a world that doesn't require courage?"
  (resurfaced 2× · 127 likes · 2018-04-23 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988358034928816128)
- “every book is a failure” - George Orwell, reminding me to just fucken publish already
  (resurfaced 2× · 126 likes · 2020-11-28 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1332489830639366145)
- every cope is an emotional support cope, and on the inside at some level we become screaming crying babies when you take our pacifiers from us. behavior change necessitates that we both be this new kind generous supportive adult and the old screaming baby simultaneously
  (resurfaced 2× · 125 likes · 2022-09-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1566559592368132096)
- people talk about orwell vs huxley but there's not enough mention of shirley jackson's lottery, or vonnegut's harrison bergeron (both are very short stories that you can read in minutes, and I highly recommend both if you haven't read them)
  (resurfaced 2× · 125 likes · 2020-01-04 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1213445249638383616)
- Many people are somehow simultaneously too careful and too careless with their words and suffer the worst of both worlds
  (resurfaced 2× · 125 likes · 2020-08-30 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1300029713088262144)
- I saw someone (a linguist? some person who works with languages, speech) say “we’re never NOT singing”, and I can’t stop thinking about it, can’t stop hearing it in others. Rhythm and melodies, inflections and intonations. Everybody’s a musician
  (resurfaced 2× · 125 likes · 2019-04-17 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1118508789471121409)
- comms is lossy
  (resurfaced 2× · 124 likes · 2024-03-14 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1768094396678042052)
- 😴 you start as a child with wild philosophical questions, and then get shepherded through the System where you‘re supposed to STFU and do as you’re told, and when you get all the way to the top, they say, “Sire, to survive, we need someone to answer wild philosophical questions”
  (resurfaced 2× · 124 likes · 2021-01-01 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1344932541917061127)
- friend: what is your #1 social skill?  me: knowing when to stfu  friend: LOL what?? but you never stfu  me: 😂 right, that’s how it looks like to you. Online you can play dozens of hands simultaneously. But you don’t see the hands I fold. I fold hands better than you  friend: 🤔
  (resurfaced 2× · 123 likes · 2019-07-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1148078513330593792)
- 30 second ad idea for Harvard:  Excited brown girl runs into her village home and yells, “I got into Yale!!”  Her family looks at her blankly. “What’s Yale?”  “It’s like Harvard.”  Cut to a big celebration, with the Harvard logo on screen, a tagline like “you know who we are.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 123 likes · 2019-03-11 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1105039312557563905)
- this is true regardless of how you choose to define success; whether we're talking abt climbing the corporate ladder or being an artist. I'm reminded of Vic Wooten talking about how he deliberately practices wrong notes (worth watching even if non-musical) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biunavwAl_w
  (resurfaced 2× · 123 likes · 2018-03-30 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/979718744896188417)
- 2025 tweet (2024👇🏾)
  (resurfaced 2× · 122 likes · 2025-01-01 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1874325877703794899)
- if you think someone cannot shape their reality, you should observe the holes they dig themselves into https://x.com/visakanv/status/1392532247266299905
  (resurfaced 2× · 122 likes · 2023-08-06 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1688162183400812544)
- Googling is a superpower. Sometimes I Google the answers to people’s questions in real time and they think I’m a genius for it. I don’t know why people don’t do this more; it’s basically second nature for me https://x.com/cockspit/status/1016591290241347584
  (resurfaced 2× · 122 likes · 2018-07-12 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017428148193976320)
- there's a common motif in many asian cultures that's something like, "asian parents don't tell you they love you, they show you by feeding you"  I think a dark parallel to that is "asian parents don't tell you they're scared & traumatized, they show you by controlling your life"
  (resurfaced 2× · 121 likes · 2019-02-04 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1092324267688058881)
- trying to find a tweet from a mutual that goes something like, "when a persistent problem has a simple and obvious solution, I need to remind myself to ask, what hidden dysfunction is preventing even this simple solution from being implemented?"  anybody recognize it?
  (resurfaced 2× · 121 likes · 2020-07-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1279204879794233344)
- The chromatic scale is when you literally play every single note on the piano or guitar. It's like reciting the numbers or the alphabet. People typically use it for mindless finger practice. Wooten argues that we should LISTEN to the music in these boring, mechanical sounds
  (resurfaced 2× · 121 likes · 2019-01-19 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086667888667152384)
- I've revisited dozens of @paulg essays 100s of times over the years, and over time I find that the #1 thing I urgently insist that people read is this section on Prestige, from How To Do What You Love [2006]. To me, this is pg's most important idea https://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
  (resurfaced 2× · 121 likes · 2020-04-01 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1245429520775012352)
- @paulg “Learn how brains organize ideas.” - @ScottAdamsSays
  (resurfaced 2× · 120 likes · 2019-11-23 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1198211162535411712)
- - Mexicans born in the US are wealthier than Mexicans born in Mexico, but much likelier to suffer from depression - Amish have v low rate of depression  Modern society emphasizes extrinsic values over intrinsic, literally prioritizing wealth over health. The more you assimilate..
  (resurfaced 2× · 119 likes · 2018-04-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988373493447180289)
- I love this guy. Give him a day off and he goes off looking up the history of words. I am so proud of his commitment to irreverent curiosity. I say this particularly because this wasn’t always true; I wasn’t proud of myself at 17 https://x.com/visakanv/status/684615256555954176
  (resurfaced 2× · 119 likes · 2018-07-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015524317440819205)
- At the heart of this, I think, is a question: do we allow life to surprise us?  Bc everything we think we know is a *tiny* fragment of the world. The world *will* surprise us, in both good & bad ways.  Emptying your cup is about refusing to be in denial https://x.com/dineshraju/status/1007292384768491522?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 119 likes · 2019-05-17 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1129224371900338182)
- woke up this morning thinking about how the entire Mahabharata could have been avoided if Yudhisthira didn’t gamble away his whole kingdom
  (resurfaced 2× · 118 likes · 2022-11-14 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1592010260826492928)
- Publicly having self-worth can be a punishable offence
  (resurfaced 2× · 118 likes · 2020-06-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1276670400835932160)
- 41. dudes rock
  (resurfaced 2× · 118 likes · 2021-10-24 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1452281781437222921)
- Twitter is kind of a magic mirror. Universal basic cursed artifact
  (resurfaced 2× · 118 likes · 2021-01-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1346329281706659840)
- NNT knows
  (resurfaced 2× · 117 likes · 2019-02-20 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1098192006398898176)
- Remember when people were mad at Marie Kondo, one of the sweetest, most sensitive and thoughtful people around, because they hallucinated all sorts of things she never did or said? I remember
  (resurfaced 2× · 117 likes · 2019-07-16 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151018022728945665)
- One of the reasons I‘ve always been drawn to study fiction, marketing and philosophy is the following, non-judgemental observation:  People care more about fictional characters than real people.  It’s because fictional stories are told more skillfully, and framed better
  (resurfaced 2× · 117 likes · 2019-12-20 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1207916866007633920)
- in almost every case, the "midwit" meme makes more sense to me as a meme about pain and fear
  (resurfaced 2× · 116 likes · 2021-02-18 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1362367843472314368)
- idle realization: there were entire years of my life when nobody hugged me
  (resurfaced 2× · 116 likes · 2019-05-23 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1131604065434005504)
- working with great people is a *ridiculous* privilege; the disparity between "great work environment" and "ok i guess" and "I hate these people" is tremendous.  working with great people and hearing horror stories from friends feels like you're cheating at life
  (resurfaced 2× · 116 likes · 2019-02-08 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093792443026137089)
- Ooh, this is a fun one. Let me try. Just gonna wing it.  1. The heat death of the universe. Realizing that there is a universal death ahead reinforces the preciousness of every moment. We are all tracings in the sand, so don’t trade a miserable life for a temporary legacy https://x.com/brentbeshore/status/970661400786870272
  (resurfaced 2× · 116 likes · 2018-07-02 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1013797773836050434)
- Carl Sagan on “how do mirrors work” discourse
  (resurfaced 2× · 115 likes · 2025-02-20 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1892563191634272429)
- if we look back over 10+ years, i think we find that the stuff that goes viral and the stuff that’s maximally impactful-consequential aren’t all that closely related. I feel like I could piece this together through my notes but there’s a lot to go thru
  (resurfaced 2× · 115 likes · 2023-02-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1630318437212774402)
- "plays well with others" is a skill that, when you put skill points into it, it adds a bonus % multiplier to almost all other skills you have. it increases your DPS, your %evade, everything. there is nothing you can't do better with good allies on your team
  (resurfaced 2× · 115 likes · 2023-02-01 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1620822562824667136)
- Here's a buckled railway section, caused by excessive heat  when your rails don't have enough wiggle room, when you're grasping too tightly to what you have... then when the temperature increases, you're going to buckle  you could blame the heat, but it's also the system design
  (resurfaced 2× · 115 likes · 2018-10-06 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048505560734154753)
- Miles Davis saying the same thing
  (resurfaced 2× · 115 likes · 2020-04-18 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1251482583411519489)
- Subsistence hunters aren't necessarily more moral individuals, they just can't get away with selfish behavior because everything is so easily scrutinized. Modern society is a sprawling and anonymous mess. We know fraudsters are among us, but we can barely do anything about it
  (resurfaced 2× · 115 likes · 2018-04-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988376498196267010)
- I was reading recently about some guy who was tortured, I think during WW2. and he said something that shook me to my core. I paraphrase– he said... until he was tortured, he had never been truly awake, truly alive. like torture was the moment he first experienced consciousness
  (resurfaced 2× · 114 likes · 2021-11-22 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1462858254015336449)
- 💡!!! this is why it’s so hard to answer, or to help people answer, the question of “how do I figure out what I want”!!!  because the challenge is not to find out the the unknown, but to unlearn the coercion that fogs up the whole picture https://x.com/natural_hazard/status/1429196219058987020
  (resurfaced 2× · 114 likes · 2021-08-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1429374335727243266)
- his own observations: - preceding military victory - high rates of social intercourse - education (the role tutors in particular)
  (resurfaced 2× · 114 likes · 2021-02-15 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1361220067526991875)
- #nowreading Walter Isaacson's biography of Leonardo da Vinci
  (resurfaced 2× · 114 likes · 2018-04-13 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/984617407237910528)
- ok thanks to @IaimforGOAT I finally have an actual spreadsheet of which of my tweets have been self-QT'd the most. nothing surprising... dominos is 1, ayylmao is 2, replygame 3, focus4, monarch5
  (resurfaced 2× · 113 likes · 2024-12-06 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1865035745217646840)
- finally cried today rewatching kungfu panda. give up the illusion of control. you must believe
  (resurfaced 2× · 113 likes · 2023-04-29 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1652323702313455616)
- Failing at something you didn’t really care about anyway: lol whatever  Failing at something you really truly care about: ouch  Ouch 100,000 times
  (resurfaced 2× · 112 likes · 2019-12-30 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1211466764548096000)
- My Jan 2020:  - grandma’s funeral - finished my 1000 pull-up challenge (took me 13 months) - discovered box-breathing - hit 100 patrons - published first video essay, crossed 400 youtube subs - met @marionnjoya, finally visited the supertrees - went to a @Ben_Reinhardt meetup
  (resurfaced 2× · 112 likes · 2020-01-30 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1222959280380203008)
- We crush our caterpillars and complain there are no butterflies https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/singapore-needs-our-own-enid-blytons-and-roald-dahls-grace-fu-5809936
  (resurfaced 2× · 111 likes · 2020-06-22 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1275074994444201984)
- “I WAS ASKED TO DO A ROAST!! Is honesty not cherished in this church? Is this a sacred union of souls, or a gathering of cowards?!?” *gets dragged away, bride is crying, bridesmaid posted the whole thing on her Instagram story*
  (resurfaced 2× · 111 likes · 2019-11-26 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1199202945943760896)
- Assholes come in all shapes and sizes everywhere - rich, poor, male, female, trans, disabled, white, black, straight, gay... assholes are perhaps the most truly diverse and intersectional demographic
  (resurfaced 2× · 111 likes · 2018-11-21 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065115780902117382)
- 2024 tweet (2023 👇🏾)
  (resurfaced 2× · 110 likes · 2024-01-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1741712827256365335)
- I find that there’s something really satisfying about messing around with Lego and experiencing different arrangements of elements
  (resurfaced 2× · 110 likes · 2024-05-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1795309176241131788)
- there's a version of this process when you first enter a new community as an outsider  1: your POV is alien & makes no sense to anybody  2: the interplay of yr outsider POV with insider frames create novel, interesting & insightful frames  3: you are become ingroup, u boring now https://x.com/sarahdoingthing/status/877018612447313920
  (resurfaced 2× · 110 likes · 2020-01-18 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1218425344434167808)
- 3. Different people have different models of reality. Understanding this is a powerful frustration-release valve. A lot of the time, we aren’t in conflict - our models are. We‘ve each generalized from different assumptions, experiences https://x.com/visakanv/status/998900404225101825?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 110 likes · 2018-07-02 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1013800067155800069)
- Ways we fuck ourselves up:  - pressure everyone to pretend to be happy -> increased depression/suicide  - subject tentative thoughts to antagonistic scrutiny -> kill novel insights  why do we do this to ourselves? why can't we be sad & wrong without getting so worked up?
  (resurfaced 2× · 110 likes · 2018-06-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1010465261198061568)
- Juxtapose this against Ev Wiliams, founder of Blogger and Twitter. Ev was idealistic in his early days. A small-town boy who was in love with books. He recognized that the Internet gives people what they want... but not that people want to hurt people https://t.co/hftDW0Hzee
  (resurfaced 2× · 110 likes · 2018-01-25 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/956463301478658048)
- i feel like somebody might've done this thread before but there's something funny about how like the nolan batmobile aesthetic went on to reverberate thru so much of product design FOR MEN, just like how zimmer's inception Bwongggg is in all movie trailers now
  (resurfaced 2× · 109 likes · 2021-04-29 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1387815580665663488)
- "When a person is not doing his job, there can only be two reasons for it. The person either can't do it or won't do it; he is either not capable or not motivated. [...] All you can do to improve the output of an employee is to motivate and train. There is nothing else."
  (resurfaced 2× · 109 likes · 2019-07-30 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1156112972458016771)
- seconds, approximately  10^1 = 10s 10^2 = ~2mins 10^3 = ~15mins (kilosecond) 10^4 = ~3hrs 10^5 = ~1 day 10^6 = ~2 weeks (megasecond) 10^7 = ~4 months 10^8 = ~3 years 10^9 = ~3 decades (gigasecond) 10^10 = ~3 centuries 10^11 = ~3 millenia 10^12 = ~30 millenia (terasecond)
  (resurfaced 2× · 109 likes · 2020-11-28 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1332681812875780098)
- great and funny example of how incentives shape behavior https://x.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1045215162431549440
  (resurfaced 2× · 109 likes · 2018-09-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1045224387702452224)
- I highly recommend that everybody create a locked close-friends-only alt. I've described it as like having a quiet room at a house party, and it's absolutely helped me enjoy the party more.  ("yeah but you can just leave the party" shut up brad, the internet is my house)
  (resurfaced 2× · 109 likes · 2019-09-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1169483352102985729)
- If you’re a picky eater I recommend watching vids about the history of food, about different cultures, about even say individual spices, coffee, tea, etc. I also recommend Somebody Feed Phil for a sense of the wholesome promise of good food and friends https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022508497362071552?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 109 likes · 2018-08-27 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1034175149635919872)
- whereas Orwell's point is political – he argued that the quality of a language rises and falls in tandem with the quality of the society that uses it. Sloppy language leads to sloppy thinking and vice versa, each becoming a catalyst for the other  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1360856939320643586
  (resurfaced 2× · 108 likes · 2022-04-17 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1515774792884178944)
- every tweet when tweeted starts out with 0 likes and 0 RTs  every tweet, upon achieving a milestone of RTs and Likes, starts to take on additional qualities to perceivers – it starts to function less as someone's personal thought & more as a public space for all to participate in
  (resurfaced 2× · 108 likes · 2018-10-14 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1051572064753090560)
- one of my fav blogposts of all time is an old @vgr classic about the iron man movies. funny thing is that when i mentioned it to him he told me he forgot he wrote it. it kind of quietly set off a cascade in my mind... maybe it even contributed to FAN https://ribbonfarm.com/2013/05/21/schleps-puzzles-and-packages-solving-complex-problems-the-iron-man-way/
  (resurfaced 2× · 107 likes · 2022-12-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1608119505691217923)
- Now - the next thing you need to know is that *trying* to make smart writing is often counter-productive. There’s probably a simple reason for this. Smart writing often happens by accident when you accidentally take clever shortcuts when you’re focused on getting from A to B
  (resurfaced 2× · 107 likes · 2019-01-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088348792946974720)
- I watched home alone 2 like a hundred times as a kid so-
  (resurfaced 2× · 106 likes · 2023-02-23 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1628769208870789120)
- Thinking about how remarkable modern lighters are. You can procure a tiny thing that fits in the hand of a child, and it’s so cheap that people lose them all the time. Imagine handing one to Prometheus. He’d be like, wtf
  (resurfaced 2× · 106 likes · 2020-02-26 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1232726401834307585)
- “While the average older student’s poems are heavy with allegiance to a limited view of reality, the average younger writer’s vision of the world is nimble and surprising - bizarre, yet true.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 106 likes · 2019-02-01 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091288304308252672)
- nora ephron was a media theorist. sleepless in seattle was about someone falling in love with a voice on a radio show. you've got mail was about chatrooms. and julie vs julia was about a food blogger
  (resurfaced 2× · 105 likes · 2024-06-30 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1807444981952733225)
- "My child. Deep in the forest, there is a sacred mountain. On that mountain there is a monastery. It is a perilous journey, but you must go there."  "There I will find the answers I seek?"  "Answers? Fuck no. All you'll find are other wretched weirdos like you."  "... I'm going."
  (resurfaced 2× · 105 likes · 2021-03-16 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1371662383966347264)
- What I’m really trying to get at is something Les Brown once said:  You do not have to let other people’s opinions of you *become your reality*.  And as Nomi from Sense8 said, the worst, most unforgivable violence...
  (resurfaced 2× · 105 likes · 2019-02-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094904467311362049)
- @QiaochuYuan relevant bit from ken robinson:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
  (resurfaced 2× · 105 likes · 2020-01-23 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1220434183765536770)
- Also revealing: how we explain old things to children. "What's a record store, daddy?" "It's like iTunes, but in a building."
  (resurfaced 2× · 105 likes · 2015-08-01 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/627610540639023104)
- a big part of luckmaxxing is you follow some heuristic as long as it's helpful, and then when you notice it's not working, you stop. and people are like "but i thought you said..." yea i said what i said but then the situation changed and i changed my mind
  (resurfaced 2× · 104 likes · 2022-12-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1601980138941730817)
- Yo Samwise’s daughter graduated from Harvard!
  (resurfaced 2× · 104 likes · 2021-09-18 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1439283667210149888)
- people who delete old tweets are like people who sold their bitcoin at $1000
  (resurfaced 2× · 104 likes · 2020-12-30 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1344257024918339585)
- wife: i think this is one of your best tweets, it's super under-appreciated  me: aw thanks bb!!  wife: every time I see it I feel inspired...  me: 😍!  wife: ...to get back on my bullshit  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1060469888462929921
  (resurfaced 2× · 103 likes · 2019-06-03 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135507502202728448)
- feel like this could actually gain traction in our lifetime  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
  (resurfaced 2× · 103 likes · 2021-06-10 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1402902585535651840)
- I see you. You are not crazy. You are not alone. The system you’re in was not designed for someone like you, it does not know how to manage someone like you. I’m deeply sorry about that. But you are not alone. There are others like you, there have always been others like you https://x.com/chris_cal_/status/1120229222746853376
  (resurfaced 2× · 103 likes · 2019-04-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1120234427626352640)
- you might say that "oh, the most important thing is learning how to learn", and my response would be "yup, and that's project management" – setting yourself a curriculum, figuring out what you're going to do over a period of time, how you're going to measure your progress...
  (resurfaced 2× · 103 likes · 2018-10-31 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1057602292562616320)
- cleaning out my youtube playlists – found an old Guthrie Govan video that permanently levelled up my guitar bends in a matter of minutes. squeeze the minor 3rds and 7ths a lil sharp, cut the notes off halfway
  (resurfaced 2× · 102 likes · 2022-07-01 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1542724763226763267)
- Bill Burr’s Red Rocks special starts out repeating a bunch of his usual stuff but then he starts opening up about his childhood traumas and his parenting and it’s quite remarkable to witness it coming from this particular sort of dude with his particular audience
  (resurfaced 2× · 102 likes · 2022-07-15 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1547792062036074496)
- texts to an old friend who asked about my approach to twitter
  (resurfaced 2× · 102 likes · 2022-02-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1494223211709419520)
- bored so i'm trying to recreate all of my talking points from scratch without referencing anything  https://roamresearch.com/#/app/visakanv-public/page/tdzT6EDGb
  (resurfaced 2× · 102 likes · 2020-06-01 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1267398394663718912)
- someone: you suck  me: I don't agree with this. can you be more specific. can you give me a basis of comparison. I'm actually open to agreeing with you but you gotta work with me here. give me something. sorry if this is rude but your comment isn't very nice either
  (resurfaced 2× · 102 likes · 2018-05-24 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/999549677371506689)
- After agriculture & Industry:  - increased accumulation of personal property - more individualistic choices - now possible to go through entire day (or entire life) surrounded by others yet deeply, dangerously lonely - increased depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, suicide
  (resurfaced 2× · 102 likes · 2018-04-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988370963040423937)
- A megagon is a polygon (...a shape) with a million sides.  Even if it were as large as the Earth, it would be effectively impossible for humans to distinguish it from a circle.  Which makes it a simple, potent example of a well-defined concept that cannot be visualized.
  (resurfaced 2× · 101 likes · 2019-12-15 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1206242834405302273)
- Been reflecting on this for some time, this idea that the web destroys people’s ability to focus on something like reading a book. Sometimes I suspect people have it sort of backwards. Focusing on a single self-contained experience to me is sometimes kind of like eating baby food https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026292712155172864
  (resurfaced 2× · 101 likes · 2018-08-06 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026293718549057536)
- New York City
  (resurfaced 2× · 100 likes · 2019-03-16 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106787484866756609)
- @made_in_cosmos that's a vonnegut quote!
  (resurfaced 2× · 99 likes · 2022-01-26 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1486286975925895176)
- [mumbling to self] the frame story (eg Scheherazade’s Thousand and One Nights) is one of the oldest and most powerful creative tools available to creatives, and somehow still one of the most underutilized
  (resurfaced 2× · 99 likes · 2023-02-10 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1623852297964105728)
- be kind to your enemies  it confuses the motherfuckers
  (resurfaced 2× · 99 likes · 2020-01-31 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1223254341173121024)
- the cool thing about writing is that very often the coolest things you say are not the things you're trying to say, but the things you accidentally-peripherally invent on the fly to support you trying to say the thing you're trying to say  in this case, "micro-rigorous" https://x.com/visakanv/status/1062324957902888961
  (resurfaced 2× · 99 likes · 2019-01-16 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085352294290415616)
- People inadvertently do this all the time because natural language is fundamentally fuzzy&vague. We say things that seem true to us, but may only at best be true in the context of our model, which is vague to a degree we cannot appreciate until we get a more precise, hi-res one
  (resurfaced 2× · 99 likes · 2018-05-22 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998900411800010753)
- So in practice what lots of guys do, instead of confronting each other about their bullshit (because other men can be cruel, violent and domineering - men know this very well) is try and leech emotional support from women in female spaces
  (resurfaced 2× · 99 likes · 2018-09-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042708270593368064)
- loosely, ~80-95% of one’s effort should go into passing the baton well to the immediate next player. thinking past that mostly only matters to the degree that it helps them do better. if you drop the baton, all else is lost https://x.com/pradyuprasad/status/1591941551856709633
  (resurfaced 2× · 98 likes · 2022-11-14 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1592001373486616577)
- people put in a tremendous amount of work to remain exactly where they are, and they even collaborate, coordinate and conspire to reinforce this https://x.com/visakanv/status/1392532247266299905
  (resurfaced 2× · 98 likes · 2021-09-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1440926697776238593)
- wife: *giggling at previous tweet*  me: you would get so much more out of me if you were a little bit sweeter sometimes  wife: *without missing a beat* alas
  (resurfaced 2× · 98 likes · 2018-12-17 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074665252896161793)
- I think about this Japanese anarchist about once a month https://x.com/visakanv/status/977780545617674240
  (resurfaced 2× · 98 likes · 2019-03-16 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106833789609627650)
- I'm sure the Good Kings of the past were problematic in their own ways (owning slaves etc). And yet. I think often of the powerful samurai, who supposedly wept openly for their opponents, who wrote poetry, contemplated nature, loved passionately. Where are our warrior-monk-poets?
  (resurfaced 2× · 98 likes · 2018-02-14 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/963609511813554176)
- she has a sense of justice
  (resurfaced 2× · 97 likes · 2022-12-10 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1601396068067209216)
- every chemist knows how to make bombs
  (resurfaced 2× · 97 likes · 2023-03-15 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1635935664691892224)
- couple I introduced to each other in 2010 finally got engaged. long game
  (resurfaced 2× · 97 likes · 2021-12-04 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1467037075748757504)
- hypothesis: celebrities become more attractive the more you look at them  there are layers to this  part of this is mere exposure effect  part of this is a feedback loop  part is some other variable that makes them more compelling -> both more attractive + more interesting
  (resurfaced 2× · 97 likes · 2020-01-14 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1216966136043991040)
- a thing I like to reflect on is the fact that almost any piece of work can function as a seed for a better version of itself
  (resurfaced 2× · 96 likes · 2020-03-18 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1240335446778892288)
- public discourse is something like this  most people can barely keep 2 things in mind at the same time  anything serious or important typically has at least 4 variables at play  so people can keep cycling through – hey, fuck, I already wrote this thread
  (resurfaced 2× · 96 likes · 2020-06-13 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1271821296246992896)
- I often share this box breathing gif with people – putting one in this thread so I can QT it. It helps me calm down, be less anxious, be more awake, more clear headed. I only learned this about 1-2 years ago and I wish I had been taught this much earlier. Mana recharge mechanism
  (resurfaced 2× · 96 likes · 2021-07-13 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1414892133501214720)
- what if the simps unionized
  (resurfaced 2× · 96 likes · 2020-10-02 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1312097641941987328)
- What's wild is, the media is arguably the primary means by which the public *is* educated.  So what we have here is a case of a miseducated public further miseducating itself, via a process that is catalyzed by a misincentivized media  [Quote from @alaindebotton's book, News]
  (resurfaced 2× · 96 likes · 2019-02-02 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091504180760535040)
- oh yea also I always have to repeat that I make a distinction between ambition and prestige-seeking  ambition to me is about the drive to do what you want, to unfurl the flag of your being to the fullest possible extent  prestige-seeking is wanting trinkets and accolades
  (resurfaced 2× · 95 likes · 2021-08-24 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1430213681619427329)
- me: it’s time for bed  my brain: it’s time to generate 50 ideas for our next 4 years of @interintellect_ salons  me: ... I’m listening
  (resurfaced 2× · 95 likes · 2020-10-18 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1317918900760113152)
- Looking at my cat looking at a bird, and thinking about how small her brain is, and yet how marvellous and complex- and wondering what it is we humans do, really, with all that extra brain
  (resurfaced 2× · 95 likes · 2020-11-08 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1325353197301497856)
- Just discovered @kmsalvagedesign's work and I am awestruck  caption on the second one is "always play with your food"  3rd: "nature meets my scissors"  something poetic, bold, sharp and soft about her use of lines and space  https://www.instagram.com/kmsalvagedesign/
  (resurfaced 2× · 95 likes · 2020-06-25 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1276129718253711360)
- So I’m pretty late to the Billy Eilish music show - I’ve been paying some attention to talented 17/18 year olds since I was about 10, and I think she’s one of the most remarkable characters I’ve seen since Hayley Williams. Too early to know for sure of course  Ah, homeschooled
  (resurfaced 2× · 95 likes · 2019-12-22 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1208646769367642119)
- Most men are aesthetically lobotomized. Stripped of their magic and colours. It’s all connected
  (resurfaced 2× · 95 likes · 2019-09-11 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1171659265414696962)
- I'm not like other workaholics, I'm worse
  (resurfaced 2× · 94 likes · 2023-04-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1649050083927941127)
- Excited to watch Into The Spider-Verse for the 3rd time, this time with wife, and this time on a proper TV rather than an airplane monitor
  (resurfaced 2× · 94 likes · 2019-05-11 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1127182044134395905)
- well, I refuse to do what the algorithm tells me to
  (resurfaced 2× · 93 likes · 2021-01-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1345551143229825024)
- I once made eye contact with Bill Gates when I was working part-time at the Singapore Air Show in 2010 (to save up money for Paramore tickets). I like to think that I absorbed some of his life force. Sometimes just imagining you’ve siphoned a fragment of someone’s soul is enough https://x.com/justglew/status/1166859815898865664
  (resurfaced 2× · 92 likes · 2019-08-29 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1166917392498192386)
- People who inherit their models from some in-group are especially subsceptible to this. In-groups often have sacred truths that cannot be questioned - violate this and you get excommunicated. It’s actually quite rational for people to prioritise group loyalty over model accuracy
  (resurfaced 2× · 92 likes · 2018-05-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998907800443998208)
- He starts by talking about his experience as a chef - (oh, how beautiful a Netflix special with Ogilvy and Bourdain would’ve been!)  - hire ambitious people and challenge them  - the head chef must cook well  - sincere praise from people with high standards wins precious loyalty
  (resurfaced 2× · 92 likes · 2018-11-11 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061695923003092992)
- been thinking about how, *generally*, the more followers a person has, the more simplistic their output seems to become. I think this is probably-maybe a consequence of encountering an increasing volume of stupid misunderstandings
  (resurfaced 2× · 92 likes · 2019-02-12 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095411890593787904)
- everybody in this photo is like 6’4 and above
  (resurfaced 2× · 91 likes · 2022-08-04 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1555046975610859521)
- The race is on to assemble the best possible articulations of ideas in ways that are not just funny or clever, but deeply resonant in ways that make other people want to revisit and reuse them repeatedly  broke: viral tweet  woke: tweet that’s referenced & reused in many threads
  (resurfaced 2× · 91 likes · 2019-05-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133071173539966976)
- I think many people are bad at it because they haven’t actually done a rigorous assessment of their own worth. Their sense of self is ungrounded, and so extremely exposed and vulnerable to attacks as well as *perceived* attacks. A cursed, exhausting life
  (resurfaced 2× · 91 likes · 2019-02-11 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094910813712703488)
- dawning on me more clearly that “the universe likes secrets”
  (resurfaced 2× · 90 likes · 2022-09-16 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1570597930788335620)
- "When we truly feel comfortable, the desire to improve is natural— no antagonism required, no debt incurred." – @ChrisLakin_com
  (resurfaced 2× · 90 likes · 2022-01-17 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1483003139376947204)
- decide who you are!!!! omg!!!!!!  why do I get worked up about this, where are the exclamation marks coming from  because somehow it's about me, and not the cool abundance mindset energy visa, but the scared, confused, isolated visa somewhere deep in there still  oof man, oof
  (resurfaced 2× · 90 likes · 2020-10-18 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1317775698166099970)
- "I fully realize that a human is not really capable of creating really good works until he reaches eighty... I am now seventy-seven (77) years old and am convinced that my real work is just beginning." – Akira Kurosawa, to Ingmar Bergman
  (resurfaced 2× · 89 likes · 2024-04-29 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1785022875185111103)
- attention sovereignty is the cheapest to obtain (focus on what you want!) and yet maybe almost as a consequence of that cheapness it is perhaps the most easily given up  and then “for want of a nail” style, through the hijacking of one’s attention, all else is lost
  (resurfaced 2× · 89 likes · 2022-11-07 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1589501890483847168)
- I intend to reward all my friends very richly
  (resurfaced 2× · 89 likes · 2021-04-15 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1382604955047972867)
- Check out the first page!!! My god. I wish we could follow him on Twitter.
  (resurfaced 2× · 89 likes · 2018-11-11 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061692817485910016)
- There’s no way you could’ve persuaded me in the first shot to pose for the second shot. No way. It isn’t just lighting and angles, it’s a completely different self-image, a different relationship to reality. You can’t just put a sad person in happy “clothes” overnight
  (resurfaced 2× · 89 likes · 2020-03-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1239403229491998720)
- A lot of the tedium of everyday life builds up anxiety & stress, from the burden of maintaining a costly illusion of sanity. The comedian’s job is to remind us that it’s all hilarious. And not in a contemptuous or cruel way - laughing at ourselves should be wholesome, nourishing
  (resurfaced 2× · 89 likes · 2019-03-21 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108797159166496768)
- Now here's what I think. There IS something sincerely enriching at the heart of Manworld... but it has long been corrupted. There IS a possible healthy ideal of Manhood - I describe it as "being sensitive, smart and strong, so that you can protect and nurture others". A good King
  (resurfaced 2× · 89 likes · 2018-02-14 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/963608027180904448)
- these the sort of mfs who can survive weeks alone in the jungle, kill you with their bare hands, strip and assemble a rifle in under 60s, jump out of planes, climb mountains for fun. they also cheerfully sing Baby Shark and watch Frozen with their kids. They have nothing to prove
  (resurfaced 2× · 88 likes · 2022-01-16 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1482686274989600768)
- i dont usually like pointing directly at this but i get annoyed/frustrated sometimes when I talk about one of the variables and people are like "but what about the other variables" and I'm like yea bro you need all 7 variables at the same time
  (resurfaced 2× · 88 likes · 2022-12-13 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1602787900797911040)
- 17. few of you have any real ambition. seeking money and prestige and sex is not an ambition. See again: you lack imagination
  (resurfaced 2× · 88 likes · 2020-06-21 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1274536855552225282)
- Visa-25!! You were one *tough* motherfucker and I appreciate you so much. We are ***out*** of the shit-pit we were in, and it’s thanks to you. You did the work, even though you got no reward for it from our dumbfuck brain. You kept the faith, you held the line. ❤️❤️❤️, my hero
  (resurfaced 2× · 88 likes · 2019-01-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086337947392106496)
- (The word fault is obviously problematic but I'm choosing to reclaim it. It's my fault and I'm damn glad it is! Proud to be the one at fault here! "Excuse me who's responsible for this?" Why I am, thanks for noticing! IT'S MY FAULT AND THAT'S A FUCKING GOOD THING!!! You fuckers)
  (resurfaced 2× · 88 likes · 2018-04-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981666901557309440)
- imagine if someone said “I’m hungry” and someone else said “I disagree, I literally just ate”. That’s obviously absurd  but somehow some wires seem to get crossed when the statement becomes slightly more complex. “I’m hungry for a better class of movie criticism” “I disagree”
  (resurfaced 2× · 87 likes · 2021-05-24 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1396772401996648449)
- this is the 3rd good meme of 2020 after printer go brr (silver) and coffin dance (gold)  I've been keeping score: the last time the memes were good was in 2017. 2018 and 2019 were absolute shit for memes https://x.com/mauricioruiz135/status/1264604526075621376
  (resurfaced 2× · 87 likes · 2020-05-25 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1264968482501693447)
- “trying to do interesting things in the future is a status violation because your current status right now determines what kinds of images you are allowed to associate with yourself” https://x.com/beccanalia/status/1274551499864125442
  (resurfaced 2× · 87 likes · 2020-06-21 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1274553061755596800)
- kinda wanna start a second Roam that's 100% public
  (resurfaced 2× · 87 likes · 2020-04-14 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1250103048774406144)
- After a couple of years, I am extremely convinced: threading is a superpower. It doesn't actually require much intelligence or skill. You just need to ask, "is this thing relevant or related to any other thing?" – and if it is, you thread it. It takes minimal effort and yields 🔥
  (resurfaced 2× · 87 likes · 2018-11-18 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064199428242690048)
- I used to mock the overachievers. Took me about 10 years to realize that underachieving is unfulfilling too. Life is tough for everyone.
  (resurfaced 2× · 87 likes · 2015-01-17 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/556510835401441280)
- If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girl friend  – VI.16.15 (atrium of the House of Pinarius); 6842
  (resurfaced 2× · 86 likes · 2018-12-11 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072436171043692544)
- self-destructive behavior? oh, you mean you have violent anarchist rebels protesting the tyranny of the authoritarian tyrant self?
  (resurfaced 2× · 86 likes · 2021-12-18 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1472307444474806273)
- I’m very inspired by Miles Davis’s approach to creativity and collaboration. People often assume that this sort of guy must have a huge ego and be really selfish, yet you can see that he had this amazing sense of how to nourish creativity in others, and they loved him for it
  (resurfaced 2× · 86 likes · 2020-04-19 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1251746098940502016)
- I have a lot of illegible feelings that I don’t even properly realize I have. I think they have a habit of hiding in fear from the federal government of my consciousness
  (resurfaced 2× · 86 likes · 2019-07-21 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1152839705630662656)
- I was curious then too, but back then I think I was made to feel guilty about it. How dare a child have the audacity to pursue his own interests at the expense of what other people tell him he ought to be focusing on? The gall, temerity, insolence, arrogance, impertinence!!
  (resurfaced 2× · 86 likes · 2018-07-07 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015525574058491905)
- Going moderately viral on Twitter a few times gives me flashbacks to my political blogging days. It’s a very powerful way to very quickly and intimately learn all of the ways you can be misunderstood because of the imperfections in your communication style. Baptism by fire
  (resurfaced 2× · 86 likes · 2018-05-18 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/997279558733778944)
- cheers motherfuvkers!!!
  (resurfaced 2× · 85 likes · 2022-08-07 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1556078607872585728)
- You can personally find Kanye to be tacky and cringe and still indirectly benefit from the work he’s done as a public figure to expand the range of expression. He could’ve just sat on his ass and enjoyed being a comfortable wealthy person. Same is true of Elon
  (resurfaced 2× · 85 likes · 2020-06-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1276102360851296256)
- I have been tormented for many years by multiple vague ideas about calendars, todo list apps, task trackers and video games, and at 4am lying in bed I think it all just came together for me. I hate you @visabrain. Why can’t we do this after the sun comes up 😭
  (resurfaced 2× · 85 likes · 2019-11-21 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1197610956810936326)
- A simple get-to-know-each-other game:  1. Reply to this with a quote tweet of one of your own tweets that you think the others would be into  2. Check each other out and follow each other if you like
  (resurfaced 2× · 85 likes · 2020-04-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1251236747997900801)
- I got to thinking about this again when I stumbled on some old tweets where I was trying to make sense of Amanda Palmer’s story and I found myself saying “it stopped being cute”. What’s cute when you’re the underdog stops being so when you gain power. This is hard to navigate!! https://x.com/visakanv/status/1381088811573112835
  (resurfaced 2× · 84 likes · 2022-05-28 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1530533643575119872)
- One of my favorite albums is Explosions in the Sky's The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place [2003]. I listen to it from start to finish now and then when I want to have a sort of cleansing, "the ecstasy & agony of being alive" experience. Do you have an album that does this for you?
  (resurfaced 2× · 84 likes · 2020-05-07 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1258232076442034176)
- just realised that I’ve been using “many such cases” casually in speech and it’s something I inherited from... donald trump
  (resurfaced 2× · 84 likes · 2020-12-13 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1338154652076920834)
- when I say "confident" I don't mean bluster, bravado, arrogance, etc – all of which are often symptoms of insecurity  I mean the quiet sort of confidence that comes from knowing your worth, taking ownership and responsibility for yourself, your actions and their consequences, etc
  (resurfaced 2× · 84 likes · 2019-06-03 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135620962831937537)
- 21. This is the single most effective way to get maximum publicity and Elon clearly knows it
  (resurfaced 2× · 83 likes · 2019-12-29 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1211196519073759232)
- 3. Incremental vs Iterative https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061640268485615616?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 83 likes · 2018-11-25 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066822436333674496)
- If I’m right about this, flirting should make you a better fighter pilot, and fighter pilots should make uncommonly good flirts
  (resurfaced 2× · 83 likes · 2019-02-15 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096311474086064128)
- 15. I think censorship is overblown as a threat to art. Censorship is a constraint. Get creative! Be subtle! Write satire! Work with it, integrate it into your work. What you choose to leave out, and how you do that, can speak volumes. Artists find a way to get their point across
  (resurfaced 2× · 83 likes · 2018-05-10 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994555265482555392)
- @selentelechia Attention is touching with your mind
  (resurfaced 2× · 82 likes · 2023-02-06 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1622517234659909632)
- It is not “a bit mentally ill” to tinker with your own thoughts and beliefs!! they have played you for absolute fools  that’s like feeling like a criminal for opening up your own devices. It’s YOURS
  (resurfaced 2× · 82 likes · 2021-11-10 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1458358201452163076)
- I have never had much interest in horror films. Life is horrifying enough for me
  (resurfaced 2× · 82 likes · 2020-08-02 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1289838401760317441)
- Every person is a team effort or they’re fucked. Great man theory is a fucking crime against humanity
  (resurfaced 2× · 82 likes · 2020-06-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1276994734880243712)
- post-traumatic growth https://x.com/not_helmet/status/1231968958565113857
  (resurfaced 2× · 82 likes · 2020-02-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1231969984894525441)
- I felt kinda bad for calling this out when nobody else was saying anything but I was right lol and once he admitted it himself it’s SUPER OBVIOUS but NOBODY SAID ANYTHING!!!!! https://x.com/visakanv/status/1541701656479379456
  (resurfaced 2× · 81 likes · 2022-07-09 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1545660840140894208)
- Junger warns against romanticization. "Virtually all of the Indian tribes waged war against their neighbours and practiced deeply sickening forms of torture" - disembowelment, slow burning, hacked alive.  "The Spanish Inquisition was also busy serving up just as much barbarism"
  (resurfaced 2× · 81 likes · 2018-04-23 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988365273563521024)
- cool persian-flavored words:  assassin azure biryani candy caravan carcass caviar chakra cummerbund dervish gizzard jasmine julep khan khaki kiosk lemon lilac mogul musk pajama pashmina sandal scimitar serendipity shah shawl sherry sugar taj tiara vizier zaminder zarathustra
  (resurfaced 2× · 81 likes · 2019-09-21 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1175497474137456640)
- About once or twice a week I get some long DMs, usually from a younger person, who’s all stressed out and wound tight about how they’re going about their lives. It’s really heartening and kinda sad how appreciative they are when all I do is say a few kind, supportive things
  (resurfaced 2× · 81 likes · 2019-03-06 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1103234069431607296)
- Thai and Indonesian depictions of Hinduism are fascinating and very cool, here's a Thai depiction of Vishnu, and a Balinese depiction of Saraswati  (me: ok but can we stick to the topic at hand  visabrain: no)
  (resurfaced 2× · 81 likes · 2019-09-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1170947788558856199)
- what is a good way to start appreciating jimi hendrix?
  (resurfaced 2× · 81 likes · 2019-07-04 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1146857012623364096)
- Rich kids are so often so boring  I suspect that inherited wealth often disincentivizes the pursuit of deep interestingness, by trapping these kids in cheap (to them) validation loops https://x.com/taylorlorenz/status/1090730604910518272
  (resurfaced 2× · 81 likes · 2019-01-31 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090970659381862400)
- There’s a language called Esperanto. It’s a great idea: a simple, intuitive language - easier to learn than English, and once you learn it, it’s actually easier to learn other languages. But almost nobody cares about it https://t.co/eQ45B2fvQK
  (resurfaced 2× · 81 likes · 2018-09-02 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1036219624663080960)
- I think the Japanese occupation of Singapore during WW2 — which happened decades before I was born — affected me psychologically in a deep way, in a way that doesn’t seem to bother most of my peers
  (resurfaced 2× · 80 likes · 2021-07-18 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1416710867979161605)
- america IMO is an idea, started by a bunch of "nah fuck u i wont do what u tell me" bloggers and "bro let's start our own society" LARPers, and in some senses it seems like the idea of america shines more brightly in certain parts of the internet than in america itself
  (resurfaced 2× · 80 likes · 2021-07-30 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1420998936513302528)
- @sonyasupposedly I didn't think cheering for violence would lead to *unacceptable* violence, said violence cheerleader
  (resurfaced 2× · 80 likes · 2020-06-30 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1278021614500581377)
- I don't know how people function without progressive summarization  I've always done it as long as I can remember, at every scale, on every front  it's almost a coping mechanism for dealing with information overload – if I couldn't do it I'd just be drowning all the time
  (resurfaced 2× · 80 likes · 2020-04-26 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1254448077894639616)
- I think I'm gonna do a whole bunch of self-reflective tweets in the next couple of months in anticipation of the 2020s and also my 30s (my birthday is in June, so I split my years very nicely into 6 month intervals)  AMA about my 20s
  (resurfaced 2× · 80 likes · 2019-11-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1193898207815725058)
- 📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎📎 https://x.com/mreliwjones/status/1196762152645861377
  (resurfaced 2× · 80 likes · 2019-11-19 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1196764192218288128)
- At any moment, you can choose to KonMari your social graph. Right now, you can go through your texting apps, following lists, FB friends, etc and let go of anybody who doesn't spark joy. And you can identify the top 1% of people in your life & strengthen those relationships
  (resurfaced 2× · 80 likes · 2019-04-13 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1117062902261792768)
- Me on twitter every morning
  (resurfaced 2× · 80 likes · 2019-03-16 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106837126379798530)
- If you have to do some mocking, you should mock the incompetence in your own ingroup. Mock your own incompetence while you’re at it. Being able to laugh at ourselves is a huge relief anyway, and it’s fun, and it makes you more likeable to pretty much everyone
  (resurfaced 2× · 80 likes · 2018-05-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998909951320834053)
- the study i mentioned, if yall are curious: https://t.co/LaESzVsNzu…  6-7yo chinese kids in singapore averaged 3hrs/week outdoors  6-7yo chinese kids in sydney averaged 13+ hours outdoors  29.1% myopia rate in singapore  3.3% myopia rate in sydney
  (resurfaced 2× · 79 likes · 2024-02-06 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1754796566768943468)
- fren @asyapluggedin brought me to Berkeley Bowl West… holy cow. Tremendous. Land of Plenty
  (resurfaced 2× · 79 likes · 2022-08-08 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1556742837529501697)
- there's a teahouse / bubble tea brand called BaWangChaJi from Yunnan, China and I kinda love how it straight up looks like an Alternate Universe Starbucks
  (resurfaced 2× · 79 likes · 2021-03-19 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1372819698715271173)
- Dashrath: "When I started hammering the hill, people called me a lunatic but that steeled my resolve."  Justo: "When I started building, word on the street was that I was crazy. They didn't believe I would be so dedicated... I'm proving them wrong."  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1443916814426071042
  (resurfaced 2× · 79 likes · 2021-10-01 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1443919142885552128)
- People always seem a little surprised to discover that I mean what I say re: “I am playing a very long game here” https://x.com/malcolm_ocean/status/1234246298565566471
  (resurfaced 2× · 79 likes · 2020-03-02 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1234421881958088704)
- Where do assholes find the time?
  (resurfaced 2× · 79 likes · 2018-10-31 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1057554915952779264)
- Gonna do a thread about the spice trade in the 1600s. Anybody have any fun facts, favourite stories, etc?
  (resurfaced 2× · 79 likes · 2019-09-27 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1177499538157735936)
- Just realized while watching Money Heist that Spanish folks who watch Terminator in Spanish see Arnold say “Sayonara, baby” (Japanese) instead of “Hasta la vista”
  (resurfaced 2× · 79 likes · 2019-11-22 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1197850542770290688)
- The City of New York officially recognises that New Yorkers eat ass 🗽 https://x.com/sanspoint/status/1241153727526047744
  (resurfaced 2× · 79 likes · 2020-03-21 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1241262961043234818)
- I also did think that if this didn’t work out and there was truly nobody out there who cared, then I might as well kill myself. But the simple fact that art exists in the world convinced me that the odds of this were extremely small - ie success was/is just a matter of persisting
  (resurfaced 2× · 79 likes · 2018-07-07 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015480806293114881)
- @vgr u rn
  (resurfaced 2× · 78 likes · 2022-05-30 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1531330255595896838)
- are ya'll familiar with The Overview Effect? It was my primary obsession in life in my early 20s https://x.com/AfghanHistorian/status/1431653283198820357
  (resurfaced 2× · 78 likes · 2021-08-28 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1431671739205898248)
- all of these were beloved spaces where Singaporean creatives would hang out. Every one of them had the potential, IMO, to develop into becoming real incubators of culture. It takes like maybe 20 years for such places to become legendary cultural institutions like NYC comedy clubs
  (resurfaced 2× · 78 likes · 2020-07-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1285950475360014336)
- each has a weak spot, right? if you're too agreeable, people get to exploit you, take advantage of you, walk over you. you need some hard boundary somewhere. if you're too disagreeable, you win lots of skirmishes, but people can resent you. and you're vulnerable to slights
  (resurfaced 2× · 78 likes · 2020-07-08 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1280709472453705728)
- One of my favorite things to do as a child was to sit at the front of a double decker bus and read a book while looking out at the world. I still love it
  (resurfaced 2× · 78 likes · 2019-11-06 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1192007081445875713)
- a rule I have with my friends is that they are not allowed to apologize to me for being "late" to reply to a message, or for 'rambling too much', etc. take all the space and time you need  sad fact: about 90% of the unnecessary apologies are from women
  (resurfaced 2× · 78 likes · 2018-07-18 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1019711142250205184)
- 2. get a gaming mouse that has extra buttons on it, and map one button to "close tab" (cmd+w on chrome + mac), and another to "add bookmark". You can literally then bookmark and close tabs by barely moving a single finger on a single hand https://x.com/visakanv/status/897681598962958336
  (resurfaced 2× · 78 likes · 2019-01-11 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083565032137359363)
- An interesting thing is how good people are at avoiding eye contact with underclass folks (migrant workers, vagrants, homeless people, etc). Like, do parents teach kids to do this? How do people learn to do this
  (resurfaced 2× · 78 likes · 2018-08-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1031403542651625472)
- but rather it’s an invocation of sets of ideas, vibes, emotions and so on.  The ideas are people-shaped primarily because people are excellent at relating to other people, so a person-shaped box is the Trojan horse with the most amount of storage space for content
  (resurfaced 2× · 77 likes · 2022-03-01 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1498730363413164032)
- doing some reading into tamil history and I'm reminded of the last time I visited the madurai meenakshi temple with my parents in 2016. it was quite a moving and eye-opening experience.  most hindu koyils in singapore look like this. it's always contextualized by the city
  (resurfaced 2× · 77 likes · 2019-09-08 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1170613954822864896)
- most 2021 meme so far tweet
  (resurfaced 2× · 77 likes · 2021-06-10 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1402910050956365824)
- You shouldn’t get into this game with a sort of short-term profiteering mindset, but making friends is *real* wealth. It’s people who will feed you & host you in their homes & care about your well-being. People who will help you find jobs and set you up on dates. Friends do that
  (resurfaced 2× · 77 likes · 2019-07-18 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151880562694451200)
- As I get older I feel this subtle-but-strong pressure to become more “professional” - more “civil”, more “mature”, more even-handed. Most of the time this is a good thing. But I’ve also discovered that sometimes this impulse can mean tolerating things we shouldn’t tolerate
  (resurfaced 2× · 77 likes · 2018-07-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017474611221389312)
- Iroquois Nation: parallel govts that protected civilians from warriors & vice versa. Peacetime leaders, often chosen by women, had complete authority over civil affairs until war broke out. Then war leaders took over. If enemies tried to negotiate, peacetime leaders made the call
  (resurfaced 2× · 77 likes · 2018-04-24 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988605784434008065)
- underfollowed, jun/jul '21:  @metaflav @IanVanagas @AnneSelke @forthrighter @sunofdopamine @manipulanda @Former_Nihilist @ricvolpe @lauradobrzynski @maxefremov @ketrenzo @beckness @briandavidhall @nihilistnomya @nbouscal @speterkins @feonixrift @JeanThinkin @reconfigurthing https://x.com/visakanv/status/1388509517357359104
  (resurfaced 2× · 76 likes · 2021-08-16 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1427257501616001024)
- noticing that some younger singaporeans (including my nephews) seem to be developing a bit of an accent that I'm pretty sure they're getting from youtube
  (resurfaced 2× · 76 likes · 2020-11-25 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331558889670656001)
- we are living in 2021 but @itsmeardenleigh is living in 2077
  (resurfaced 2× · 76 likes · 2021-01-23 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1353077084885639169)
- Ask the audience: what is @visakanv’s problem?
  (resurfaced 2× · 76 likes · 2020-06-20 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1274251274238611457)
- Finally started watching Community (I like it) and it’s very interesting to compare and contrast it with Rick & Morty  What’s another example of two different pieces of media- almost different genres/mediums/formats, ideally- substantially influenced by the same person?
  (resurfaced 2× · 76 likes · 2020-04-22 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1252895831973195778)
- “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”  - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  (resurfaced 2× · 76 likes · 2019-12-02 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1201362526350393347)
- 55. Sex is overrated. Great sex is great and/but it’s a lot of work, & not what most people really care about. Most people care about what they think most other people care about. Sex as a cultural/memetic schelling point for desire is extremely boring. Choose your own adventure
  (resurfaced 2× · 76 likes · 2018-12-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078397764046749696)
- 13. Indonesian President Sukarno having cigarettes with Krushchev (USSR) and Nehru (India), ~1960s. He had 9 (NINE) wives. When the KGB tried to blackmail him with a sex tape (with several women), he supposedly laughed and asked for extra copies to show off to his countrymen
  (resurfaced 2× · 76 likes · 2018-09-30 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046372687495421953)
- Why do we hate ourselves 🤔
  (resurfaced 2× · 76 likes · 2017-11-16 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/931192332216651776)
- @kytalli describing precisely what you want in a product is a skill, you can sometimes nerdsnipe bored engineers into building stuff for you just because you described it well
  (resurfaced 2× · 75 likes · 2024-03-22 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1771073570069758263)
- 34. “When you have a monopoly market share… the people that can make the company more successful are the sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies… and the companies forget what it means to make great products.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 75 likes · 2022-01-05 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1478654286355517442)
- 8. most ppl dont realize how big the world is and how many fucken people there are. there are more people in the world than seconds in your life. this means you should never bother explaining yourself to anybody who doesn't get you. i mean, dont be a dick of course, but ykwim
  (resurfaced 2× · 75 likes · 2022-03-24 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1506855458648526848)
- The guiding question that I think was helpful for me was: what sort of life do you want for yourself? What sort of people do you want in your life? You have no obligation to force yourself to be around miserable people. You don’t *have* to be a full-time savior of the broken
  (resurfaced 2× · 75 likes · 2019-11-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1195568606764883969)
- a thing that's hard to express is how much I love just randomly filling out my history pages on Roam – this one is a master page on people, there's one on cities, and it's just so easy to tend to this graph and feel like I'm developing a richer understanding of the world
  (resurfaced 2× · 75 likes · 2021-03-14 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1371159770858549249)
- an interesting thing to explore: are these fellas such good-natured people because they're so good at being playful with others? or is it their playfulness that makes them exude such good vibes? causality is complicated, but the two are clearly related  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1222438497274888193
  (resurfaced 2× · 75 likes · 2020-06-08 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269861111735574528)
- nephew: i'm going to buy a ferrari  me: oh, nice! how are you going to pay for it?  nephew: i'm going to be a business man  me: cool!! what sort of business  my mum: how can you ask him that, he's just a little boy  me: *internally* you don't know shit about raising children
  (resurfaced 2× · 75 likes · 2019-10-05 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1180415392977575943)
- For the last 5,000 years, popular insurrections = ritual destruction of the debt records – tablets, papyri, ledgers, whatever. (After that, records of landholding and taxes.)  Moses Finley: all revolutionaries have the same agenda: cancel the debts and redistribute the land
  (resurfaced 2× · 75 likes · 2018-11-22 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065552831740923904)
- 15. "No bitch. Dat's a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about." – @bravocoolee
  (resurfaced 2× · 74 likes · 2022-03-15 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1503787917562753025)
- I want(ed) to do 30 bullet points for my younger self(ves). The first and most important point would be  1. breathwork. Take deep slow breaths and hold them. Look up box breathing. This is like “press F to regain mana”. Lowers anxiety symptoms. Tunes the guitar of your mind
  (resurfaced 2× · 74 likes · 2020-07-30 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1288663646092980225)
- thread of my mutuals’ tweets that I quote most often
  (resurfaced 2× · 74 likes · 2020-10-09 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1314520047734321155)
- saw the following exchange on the TL  A: law of attraction works  B: sorry, survivorship bias, dangerous ideology  me: I don't see any disagreement here 😂
  (resurfaced 2× · 74 likes · 2020-04-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1254806796566294528)
- wife: would you like to pick out your own coffin?  me: just wrap me in dank memes  wife: [startled] baby!!!  me: enshroud me in my tweets
  (resurfaced 2× · 74 likes · 2020-01-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1212233132310593537)
- Adding this thread to my list of threads on making friends and socializing: https://www.notion.so/visakanv/a-list-of-visakanv-s-threads-1a6ed25cf06e49e388a303903d597b73
  (resurfaced 2× · 74 likes · 2019-07-17 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151464315112718337)
- Knowing how to use tactical agreement + knowing when to STFU easily puts you in the top 1% of conversationalists
  (resurfaced 2× · 74 likes · 2019-02-26 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1100490023932051456)
- i got my last 10k followers on here in just 4 months. it took me like 10 years to get the first 10k. as long as Twitter itself doesn't die, i'll probably cross 100k late next year, and it will seem comparatively effortless. just need to keep showing up and having fun
  (resurfaced 2× · 73 likes · 2023-10-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1712878580785627455)
- what nobody told me specifically in the first 10 years or so - or if they did I didn’t listen, lol 😀 - is that THE PRECISE WAY YOU FUCKED UP HAS *INSIGHT* BURIED IN IT. 😩 Flinching from mistakes is like not picking up the loot your enemies drop when you defeat them
  (resurfaced 2× · 73 likes · 2021-05-07 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1390619792197885953)
- I have no interest in retiring on a yacht. I want to find Lennon and introduce him to McCartney, find Wozniak and introduce him to Jobs, and make 1,000x such introductions. I want to see an iPhone-class innovation happen every year. I want to read 1,000 amazing new bloggers https://x.com/visakanv/status/1286551609011392512
  (resurfaced 2× · 73 likes · 2021-03-07 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1368524082942124032)
- gonna treat myself between editing sessions by crushing typeracers with my gigachad 99.7% WPM percentile typing speed
  (resurfaced 2× · 73 likes · 2022-01-14 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1481985102293123075)
- When I was about 16, a friend said something unintentionally cool. It was late, and we were waiting for a bus, and he said "You know, I've only met two guys who are really fearless. One is [very rich friend], and the other is you. You really have this aura, I can feel it."
  (resurfaced 2× · 73 likes · 2019-06-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142790406687481857)
- universal basic Uncle Iroh for all
  (resurfaced 2× · 73 likes · 2021-06-10 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1402869771507363841)
- This is gonna get both weird and weirdly specific and I wanna write it down before I forget (I just woke up from a dream, literal not metaphorical, it’s 724am). So this is one of the more “psychoactive” books I’ve read, maybe the most, idk, I’m half delirious rn https://x.com/visakanv/status/1463230064108077056
  (resurfaced 2× · 73 likes · 2021-11-23 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1463287557244866561)
- Indian English copywriting is really something else, man
  (resurfaced 2× · 73 likes · 2019-05-30 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1134011374219063296)
- I don’t really care for any specific model. The point is to be in tune with yourself, your feelings, your body. If you do this right, it goes all the way through you, and it shows in your body, your speech, your art, your communications, your aesthetics https://x.com/visakanv/status/1155751765599346689?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 73 likes · 2019-08-05 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1158243785253376001)
- [makes everyone some hot chocolate] what's been on your mind lately that isn't really on the timeline?
  (resurfaced 2× · 73 likes · 2019-12-22 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1208683176949772289)
- I had no idea how lonely I was. Even being married to the love of my life, I was lonely. Nobody is enough people. We all need all of us. I’m going to find the others
  (resurfaced 2× · 73 likes · 2019-06-12 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1138660215073542144)
- Wild thing about having multiple chats on your phone is how you can be talking to different people at the same time - one person can be having the best day of their life while another is having the worst. This has always been true of the world but it’s never been so in your face
  (resurfaced 2× · 73 likes · 2019-04-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1120202840310345728)
- Basically, just as you can train your ear as a musician and train your eye as a photographer, you can train your sensitivity to other human beings. (It’s all connected, too, but that’s another story)  The central insight is probably... “it’s not about you.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 73 likes · 2018-12-14 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073651822932385792)
- It was interesting, I guess, to know that my uneducated dad was making more money hauling trash than several of my friends’ parents who had degrees and so on. I suppose it meant I never quite bought into certain assumptions people have about status
  (resurfaced 2× · 73 likes · 2018-11-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065513400040488960)
- One of my lifelong background fascinations is to study ads as a proxy for studying the state of media, people’s self-image, sense of being perceived, etc. have a draft of a book called Optics that’s about this. I distinctly remember being startled the first time I saw a gta v ad
  (resurfaced 2× · 72 likes · 2022-06-09 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1534825202369957890)
- OP deleted the video, sigh; I really have to do everything myself if I want anything to last
  (resurfaced 2× · 72 likes · 2023-01-31 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1620328770619195393)
- this isn't a widespread norm. a lot of people, for example, quote tweet bad things, because they don't feel like they are personally responsible for bad norms. they see themselves as small, weak, powerless, insignificant. I see myself as large, strong, powerful, significant
  (resurfaced 2× · 72 likes · 2021-07-30 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1421214779109085185)
- bad: bizzaro orgy of carpets and cushions  good: basic principles of contrast, again
  (resurfaced 2× · 72 likes · 2018-12-16 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074176242205638656)
- periodic reminder that I have a YouTube channel and I’d love it if you subscribed  my comments section there is also much less noisy than my twitter mentions and I’m likelier to reply to questions there
  (resurfaced 2× · 72 likes · 2021-05-18 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1394578054379294720)
- I’m about 25+ hours into Cyberpunk 2077 and a thing that’s remarkable to me is how lonely it feels to be V as a person trying to make it in Night City. I don’t think I’ve ever played a video game that captures this *particular* feeling so well
  (resurfaced 2× · 72 likes · 2020-12-14 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1338534465480474624)
- 39b. You could say that a lot of my development over the years has really been about infiltrating social groups, learning their norms, appreciating their values, then play-acting as "One Of Us" better than 80% of them. This gives me access to a lot more info than if I insult them
  (resurfaced 2× · 72 likes · 2018-05-12 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/995345929828876288)
- fran lebowitz has this really magnetic hyperverbal charm and swagger that’s worth studying if you’re a neurotic wordcel type. you couldn’t make her sexier by giving her a Hollywood hair n makeup makeover, the eccentric professor vibe is part of the essence, the suits, everything
  (resurfaced 2× · 71 likes · 2023-03-24 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1639102301716750336)
- "make 1368.75 beats" – Kanye  https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1364930727054344203
  (resurfaced 2× · 71 likes · 2021-02-25 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1365006046155038725)
- same thing here  so fixated on his own perceived flaws, shortcomings, etc that he has to sabotage himself  this one is an interesting one because he clearly has what it takes to succeed, if only he didn’t subsequently get in his own way https://x.com/nataliaantonova/status/1394704964082077698
  (resurfaced 2× · 71 likes · 2021-05-19 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1394952618527444997)
- I wonder if people have been using images of Jesus and Buddha to meme themselves into serenity via mirror neurons, downregulating their stress hormone cascades. Makes a certain amount of sense, civilisation is chronic stress. Calm people calm people
  (resurfaced 2× · 71 likes · 2020-06-03 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1268083474138673152)
- I sometimes think of narcissism as a sort of parasitic disease. The ego, originally a helpful construct, swells uncontrollably, metastasizes and seizes control of its human host. The host will then act against its own interests, damaging relationships with others to serve the ego
  (resurfaced 2× · 71 likes · 2020-05-10 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1259313085061361665)
- "O,,, but I do not respect myself"  And you want to be king??? fuck outta here!! 😂😂😂  srsly though; earning your own respect is one of the most important quests on this journey. nobody else can do this for you; you have to introspect and journal and be honest with yourself
  (resurfaced 2× · 71 likes · 2019-12-09 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1203934446598012929)
- @ojoshe it applies internally too; many people get impatient with themselves and think they “already know everything” about what they feel. which leads to self-alienation
  (resurfaced 2× · 70 likes · 2023-04-12 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1646296081704312832)
- 68. Latino alignment chart (h/t @ebeggin1)
  (resurfaced 2× · 70 likes · 2021-06-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1403321460135907330)
- one of my big criticisms of myself is that I am much more vague than I would like, but in my defense I would like to say that I also think it's better to be vaguely correct and then progressively get more precise, than to be precisely wrong in a way that's hard to correct
  (resurfaced 2× · 70 likes · 2021-03-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1372517196946022406)
- It’s almost a kind of emotional pornography, like or a children’s cartoon for adults. It’s caricature, and it’s well-executed even if you think it’s infantile. It gives people a sort of simplistic starter framework for simulating emotions
  (resurfaced 2× · 70 likes · 2020-05-30 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1266618574715543552)
- A phrase I’ve found myself using repeatedly is “narcissists ruin self-love for the rest of us”- ie there *are* people who are troublingly self-obsessed + troublingly indifferent to the needs of others, and their actions & behaviors can unfortunately be contaminated by association
  (resurfaced 2× · 70 likes · 2019-03-31 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1112460149698883584)
- you just know there were dudes exactly like this building ancient Roman aqueducts
  (resurfaced 2× · 69 likes · 2023-08-20 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1693160493140332754)
- I think it’s v important for kids to have relationships with nourishing adults of all kinds- particularly adults who have nothing to do with them. (Parents and teachers are constrained by their obligations.)  School programs kids to be with same-aged peers. This is unhealthy IMO
  (resurfaced 2× · 69 likes · 2019-03-06 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1103239620790181889)
- Imagine what it must’ve been like to figure out the circumference of the earth - ~40,000 kilometres - over 2,000 years ago! No rockets, no GPS, nothing - Eratosthenes figured it out with math, and thinking. Can you feel the *power* in that? What a legacy https://x.com/rainmaker1973/status/1150397159390482432?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 69 likes · 2019-07-23 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153589218280538112)
- A source of peace of mind: realising that nobody (not even yourself) really knows you, and everybody is really interacting with their hallucinated projection of who they think you are and what they think you are saying. Everything is vague to a degree you cannot imagine prior
  (resurfaced 2× · 69 likes · 2018-05-18 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/997290695537799168)
- emo poem i wrote at 17 where, in retrospect i can see i was mad at myself for violating my own boundaries, mad at myself for being insufficiently perfect, and mad at myself for being mad at myself for being insufficiently perfect, and aware that it was silly, while hurting bad
  (resurfaced 2× · 68 likes · 2023-04-30 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1652573019733397504)
- after a talk I gave at @Prigoose’s last Sunday dinner, someone came up to me and improved my own understanding of my ideas in this space – it hadn’t quite occurred to me to talk about the *ratios* of people. If you maintain the right ratio, you can grow better than if you don’t…
  (resurfaced 2× · 68 likes · 2023-03-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1633493877935026179)
- Sometimes I feel like I’ve spent my whole life on the verge of something. Something abt aesthetics, framing, vectors, movement, perception, optics, collaboration, call-and-response, feedback, resonance, virality, judo, multi-point-perspective, Gordian knots, controlled explosions
  (resurfaced 2× · 68 likes · 2019-08-03 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1157554986282131456)
- camera roll reminded me that I had a good hair morning
  (resurfaced 2× · 68 likes · 2020-12-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1337390203367899139)
- i sometimes joke with friends that if it didn't seem so odd i'd probably like to be a porn researcher, in part because I think we can learn more about people from studying porn than from lots of other things. lot of alpha in underexamined domains, especially one so private
  (resurfaced 2× · 67 likes · 2023-02-02 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1621022842161889281)
- now imagine we assemble a crew of 1,000 people who become progressively more skilled, and then trade with one another  this is how we build a generative scene. real wealth gets created  (lol i can never resist the opportunity to repeat this talking point)
  (resurfaced 2× · 67 likes · 2021-08-08 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1424200459863175174)
- while early-mover network effects are a thing, IMO people really underestimate the work. 100k of people will RT something like "I wish I started a blog in 1999" or "I wish I started a youtube channel in 2005" but what % of ya'll publish anything anywhere regularly for 10 years?
  (resurfaced 2× · 67 likes · 2019-04-04 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113666391800836096)
- The areas in life that I kick ass at are areas where I have an abundance mindset (writing, making friends, being interesting)  The areas in life that I’m shitty at are areas where I have a poverty mindset (sleep, schedules, time management)  Both are self-fulfilling loops  🤔
  (resurfaced 2× · 67 likes · 2019-01-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087278215356284929)
- I think for a lot of kids, the first time they encounter “someone who cares, when they don’t have to”, is via art. That was the case for me. Libraries are full of evidence that there are people who care about me even though they don’t know me. https://x.com/visakanv/status/1032526708480434178?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 67 likes · 2019-03-06 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1103240200610668544)
- IMO often what makes a disagreement interesting is whether or not the other person has a sense of vision  a lot of twitter idiots (from every subculture, tribe, ingroup) have no vision, which makes the disagreements hideously boring unless you're choosing to entertain yourself
  (resurfaced 2× · 67 likes · 2019-01-23 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088077027532365824)
- OMG BLAST FROM THE PAST  I wrote this... 13 years ago??  this is what I was doing instead of my homework, and I would 100% do it all over again
  (resurfaced 2× · 66 likes · 2020-01-06 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1214198764283420673)
- a husband tells his crying wife “fuck you, cry more”. sounds bad, right? But she bursts out laughing and they both joke about it for days afterwards and they both feel closer for it  how? well, she was crying about something unrelated to him, and she felt bad about getting emotional about something “silly and unimportant” and for distracting him and causing a minor scene. He re-centers her and invites her to take herself and her feelings seriously, and conveys to her comically, cheerfully, earnestly, that he will not be a collaborator in her self-repression. The “fuck you” is not actually directed at the crying self but at the cop-self repressing the crying-self  Fuck you, cry more! 😂❤️
  (resurfaced 2× · 66 likes · 2023-08-30 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1696913820856508860)
- some of my favorite parts of any sort of creative work is naming things. to joke about an outcome I’d quite like, I’d be quite into the idea of basically being a professional namer of things. In some ways I already sorta do this in bits and pieces
  (resurfaced 2× · 66 likes · 2023-02-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1623608846236422145)
- anyway since I'm still busy with the 2nd book i'm happy to just dump the draft/notes of the 3rd book in public in case it's useful to anyone in the meantime https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZDV-0WS8DrBDebF3fvUFj9aXQvLnwFc7optFgL1MpFk/edit?usp=sharing
  (resurfaced 2× · 66 likes · 2021-08-28 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1431632423821791232)
- It is pretty surprising to me how... crummy(?) the BART feels. Doesn’t feel like it belongs to a wealthy city; it has a certain sad vibe. Like... depressed Thor drinking beer and covered in Cheeto dust
  (resurfaced 2× · 66 likes · 2019-04-28 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1122520792401469441)
- Think of all the people with great ideas who had relatively miserable lives  Tesla, Van Gogh and Turing come to mind, and also probably thousands of anonymous geniuses we will never hear about, many of them women and minorities
  (resurfaced 2× · 66 likes · 2018-09-02 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1036216921182466049)
- I just learned that Drake has a tattoo of himself walking in front of the Beatles. god it's so cringe. it's like texting/calling your ex-girlfriend to brag about who you're currently dating
  (resurfaced 2× · 65 likes · 2021-04-18 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1383782855495471107)
- @IrenaPumices @daemonhugger all practical matters operate in a reality where there are constraints. dealing with constraints means having to make tradeoff decisions. how do you make decisions? well, first you have to know what your values are. how do you know what your values are? welcome to philosophy
  (resurfaced 2× · 65 likes · 2022-01-29 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1487527171489165313)
- I will bet anyone $100 bucks that at least one Stability AI employee will still be alive on Jan 1st 2024  caveat: if the CEO murders the employees though then we consider the bet null and void https://x.com/unclearirony/status/1621785025720029185
  (resurfaced 2× · 65 likes · 2023-02-05 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1622200150415523840)
- This is what I’m talking about - this is what yoga used to be like when I was a kid; this is the kinda dude you had to learn it from
  (resurfaced 2× · 65 likes · 2019-06-16 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1140177699173830656)
- part of the challenge of playing a long game is you have to develop mechanisms for dealing with the reality that there will always be newcomers who encounter you for the first time, with no context, who will ask questions that you've answered 100 times before
  (resurfaced 2× · 65 likes · 2020-08-06 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1291323237154996225)
- I used to idealistically endorse this position but the more I read history and the more I learn about people, the more I've come to believe that there's a fundamental asymmetry that has to be reckoned with – bad speech is cheaper than good speech https://x.com/CassandraRules/status/1072208865343799299
  (resurfaced 2× · 65 likes · 2018-12-11 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072396098495504384)
- a frustrating thing about trying to think out loud on the internet is a lot of people will blindly agree or disagree without actually saying anything about what they think
  (resurfaced 2× · 64 likes · 2021-10-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1443835237444640773)
- a bunch of navigating this requires developing a level of procedural, project management intelligence that isn't typically taught to regular people. to persist with the chaingun analogy, most people have regular sidearms. they don't really need to learn how to position the legs
  (resurfaced 2× · 64 likes · 2021-08-28 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1431622978941296646)
- yes, although I must say I have never felt more seen or represented as a creator than watching Natalie drag her own ass past her self-imposed moving deadline https://x.com/trdessai/status/1353929011735355392
  (resurfaced 2× · 64 likes · 2021-01-26 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1353971834408984576)
- the tamil kings
  (resurfaced 2× · 64 likes · 2019-09-07 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1170293620399693825)
- “All other nations (?!) including the United States agreed to impose an embargo on the country until it was paid. The sum was intentionally impossible (equivalent to $18B) and the resultant embargo ensured that Haiti = debt, poverty and human misery ever since.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 64 likes · 2018-11-22 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065545605563305984)
- I play a very long game here, I am consistent, I am patient, I will wait 5 years for your marriage to fail before I become best buds with your ex-wife & introduce her to all the other cool ladies who encourage her to pursue her dreams while you sit at home jerking off sadly
  (resurfaced 2× · 64 likes · 2020-04-03 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1245926580011974656)
- I wonder when I will stop being upset by the memory of this injustice. Over the years I’ve gotten more zen about it, learned to see the humor in it. But at the core of it is a story about a system that does (some?) kids wrong, and I think some angry tears will always be warranted
  (resurfaced 2× · 64 likes · 2018-07-07 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015529252807032832)
- I think I was depressed at the time coming to terms with the bleak banality of my reality – having spent a couple of dreary years eking out a living and seeing decades of the same ahead of me. David Foster Wallace described this very well in his This Is Water commencement speech
  (resurfaced 2× · 64 likes · 2018-07-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1021091199082348549)
- I think the global default good life script is something like... care about your family, care about your community, meet your obligations on those fronts, do a little extra for them if you like, get by, indulge in something you enjoy from time to time, don’t be a dick, die happy
  (resurfaced 2× · 64 likes · 2019-03-31 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1112457625625456640)
- There’s no reason other than legacy issues to use the word “newsletter” over “pamphlet” and there’s a fun legacy with the noun “pamphleteer”  same way there’s no reason to use the word “market” over “bazaar”, which means the same thing yet is intrinsically more fun and evocative
  (resurfaced 2× · 63 likes · 2021-06-13 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1404011079412248577)
- the thing i really like about this moment is the way neo looks at his hands. his hands are doing the things by themselves, he has gotten out of his way. he has stepped out of not-himself, and he is free. he has stopped trying. he is surfing the wave, effortlessly
  (resurfaced 2× · 63 likes · 2021-12-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1470010606723891204)
- @AskYatharth @mechanical_monk consider only asking the universe for things you actually want
  (resurfaced 2× · 63 likes · 2022-04-17 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1515640281449721862)
- adhd is an emotions problem disguised as a thinking problem
  (resurfaced 2× · 63 likes · 2021-11-20 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1461933421576351748)
- This is what it means to author your reality
  (resurfaced 2× · 63 likes · 2021-01-11 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1348665846470643715)
- Ogilvy worked intense hours, but also took frequent vacations “so that my brain can lie fallow - no golf, no cocktail parties. [...] while thus employed in doing nothing, I receive a constant streams of telegrams from my unconscious, and these become the raw material for my ads.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 63 likes · 2018-11-11 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061705453992726528)
- not sure I've ever said this explicitly on main, but I think it's worth saying: feel free to brag at me, praise yourself at me, etc. I'm happy to hear all of it. my caveat for acquaintances is it has to be interesting. for close friends, anything goes https://x.com/visakanv/status/1264975986203877377
  (resurfaced 2× · 63 likes · 2020-05-25 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1264977021446180864)
- When outsiders talk about the drug laws and mandatory conscription and how creepy-clean everything is, they never seem to *get it*. They don’t get the pain.  Imagine if 3-5% of Americans were murdered by invading forces. For context, 9/11 killed ~0.000092% of Americans
  (resurfaced 2× · 63 likes · 2019-06-15 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139837615878750208)
- My wife, when I’m mad at her:
  (resurfaced 2× · 63 likes · 2018-12-17 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074660987670687744)
- He was born out of wedlock - which funnily was good luck for the rest of us, because otherwise he would've been expected to be a notary like his ancestors
  (resurfaced 2× · 63 likes · 2018-04-13 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/984650452603101185)
- @tasshinfogleman @nosilverv it's one of those things where, when grandpa dies, there won't be a new grandpa hosting the family/community parties. someone might try, but really the family just won't get together in the same way anymore, it will fragment and be reborn in a myriad of different ways
  (resurfaced 2× · 62 likes · 2023-01-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1609588136316923904)
- a lot of human intuitions are calibrated for a pre-internet world. even after ~30yrs of internet, and 10yrs of smartphones. most people's intuition seems to progress and develop in a sort of halted incrementalist-ish way. the new is interpreted through the lens of the old
  (resurfaced 2× · 62 likes · 2023-01-29 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1619640829756469248)
- 37. our ill-treatment of sex workers is proof that we are not interested in the truth
  (resurfaced 2× · 62 likes · 2019-06-20 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141558764396355586)
- Insecurity. Scared little boys whose sense of meaning and self-respect is obsessively tied up with their “ability” to control the behavior of women (using threats, violence). Possessiveness is a form of cowardice https://x.com/sharanvkaur/status/1290797759788748800
  (resurfaced 2× · 62 likes · 2020-08-05 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1290957799212453888)
- a funny-sad thing is going through Quora questions that have marketing spam in the answers, clicking on the links and finding that the startups have since gone out of business  funny because they wasted their time  sad because they polluted our commons
  (resurfaced 2× · 62 likes · 2019-01-02 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1080477891249430529)
- This is a teaser for what I’ve mentioned as Culture Wars Season 3. Most people have no clue what’s ahead. Everything up until now is not even 10% as wild as what’s coming next. Less than 1% of people have the background knowledge and cultural sensitivity to navigate the crossfire https://x.com/thealexvanness/status/1148325264658771969
  (resurfaced 2× · 62 likes · 2019-07-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1150034320075046914)
- @dixitcy decide what sort of audience you want (pick ~2 topics that you're interested in), do ~100 tweets about topics they'd be interested in, write a compelling bio, follow people who'll reply back, practice good reply game, keep posting...  more detail here:  https://t.co/ilUW3vTKHG
  (resurfaced 2× · 62 likes · 2019-11-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1196083705288085504)
- The Five Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, by Carlo M. Cipolla
  (resurfaced 2× · 62 likes · 2019-03-09 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1104336070907314176)
- In the early days, whenever anybody left the company, @dineshraju would lead the team in celebrating their contributions. It made for a nourishing work environment: you knew your own departure would be dignified. Took me a while to learn that this isn’t as common as it should be
  (resurfaced 2× · 62 likes · 2019-04-07 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114805136855945218)
- one of the biggest mysteries of my life is why I never listened to anybody who raved about how ~uhmayzing~ travel is  i've tried lots of things that people have suggested, but travel is the thing I was slowest/latest to  maybe bc travelling with my parents as a child was Not Fun
  (resurfaced 2× · 62 likes · 2019-06-02 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135224003289726977)
- Having been to several places around the world now, I have to say, nobody respects my physical presence less than Singaporean Chinese aunties. Even large, scary-looking men in supposedly dangerous areas tend to get out of my way - but old Chinese aunties in SG don’t give a shit
  (resurfaced 2× · 62 likes · 2019-05-28 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133284129817022465)
- constant tension in my life  1- wanting to know more about what goes on behind the curtain 2- wanting to teach others about what i've learned about what goes on beyond the curtain  the people who help you with 1 ~generally~ don't like it when you do 2 – unless you're really good
  (resurfaced 2× · 62 likes · 2019-03-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108315938305142785)
- "congratulations: you have been trained by the computer to avoid some of its problems." https://blog.regehr.org/archives/861 https://x.com/Talor_A/status/1342926394309836800
  (resurfaced 2× · 61 likes · 2020-12-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1342935977774305282)
- there's all sorts of little things i've never properly articulated or explained anywhere. like i have some sort of intuition for some kind of "density". like historically i've often been able to notice when someone just has this extra heft to their output/presentation
  (resurfaced 2× · 61 likes · 2023-02-08 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1623407359984033792)
- I would say don’t sell ebooks until like a dozen people have literally bugged you saying “do you have an ebook? I would buy” first. Validate the demand. Practice your trust falls from survivable heights. Never spend $ you can’t afford to lose
  (resurfaced 2× · 61 likes · 2021-03-18 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1372625256339234817)
- am pretty serious about piecing this together  you'll know I know what I'm talking about when you realize i'm more attractive in 2021 than I was in 2020  y'know... for science
  (resurfaced 2× · 61 likes · 2020-01-14 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1216967060133015553)
- I very seriously experimented with beliefs like "almost everything I know is wrong to a degree I do not understand", "my mental models are contaminated beyond repair", "I have been indoctrinated and need to be deradicalized", I subjected myself and my mind to radical rewrites
  (resurfaced 2× · 61 likes · 2021-01-06 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1346815267490258945)
- 🖤
  (resurfaced 2× · 61 likes · 2020-11-14 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1327597898930941953)
- a cheesy-yet-true answer is "I think of the children". I think of the curious kids who are miserable, stuck in shitty social graphs, who could do wonderful things if someone just showed them how. I was one of them; I am being who I wished I had in my life  https://x.com/tweepul/status/1346828196033875968
  (resurfaced 2× · 61 likes · 2021-01-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1346829342483959808)
- Camera Upgrade!!
  (resurfaced 2× · 61 likes · 2020-08-27 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1298956349372424192)
- I sometimes joke to friends that if you want to defeat America you have to defeat Disney and Nike, and it's always interesting to pay attention to how people receive that thought. Some think it's ridiculous, others think it's profound. To me it's kinda plainly-simply true
  (resurfaced 2× · 61 likes · 2019-05-29 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133564813836136448)
- The interesting thing about the early stage of doing a Patreon - the money isn’t significant enough to make an impact on your life yet, but the *fact* that *other people* are *paying* has a sobering, sharpening effect, which at this stage is quite a desirable thing to me
  (resurfaced 2× · 61 likes · 2018-11-29 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068104063844143105)
- “How many good boys are here?”  “All of you, Buddy. Every single one.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 61 likes · 2018-10-30 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1057177493805838336)
- “American businessmen are not taught that it is a sin to bore your fellow creatures.”  (Singaporeans are never taught this either. 😅)
  (resurfaced 2× · 60 likes · 2018-11-11 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061718443139915776)
- I'm not a *fan* of divvying people up arbitrarily into winners and losers – one should never be gleeful about this – but I do have a subconscious subroutine that does it for me, and it's very useful mental machinery, even accounting for some small % of error rate (5-10%?) https://x.com/nosilverv/status/1324264526343229440
  (resurfaced 2× · 60 likes · 2020-11-05 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1324265927588810752)
- "stop being a dick to strangers on the telephone!" was a whole thing https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/08/what-would-emily-post-say-about-droids-in-cafes/
  (resurfaced 2× · 60 likes · 2022-06-22 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1539475240103067649)
- an iconic, era-defining photograph: "Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern", 📷 by Robert Howlett, November 1857. Brunel was a prolific civil engineer at the cutting edge, the Great Eastern was the largest steam ship built at the time
  (resurfaced 2× · 60 likes · 2022-05-03 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1521537432637771776)
- we are the dreams of our ancestors, made flesh
  (resurfaced 2× · 60 likes · 2022-01-12 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1481177136023355394)
- lovely conclusion to a thoughtful essay by @adamgopnik, who also wrote my favorite essay of all time (The Information) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/23/why-dont-the-french-celebrate-lafayette
  (resurfaced 2× · 60 likes · 2021-10-26 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1453026944073666571)
- when you start looking for stories like this, you'll find them. some nerd wrote a critical letter to Sony, and they made him their President.  for all you know, if he applied for an entry level-ish job, he might not have gotten it  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114572368393826307
  (resurfaced 2× · 60 likes · 2020-09-26 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1309664937136943105)
- in fact I think realising you’re gonna die one day can be in some respects less harrowing than realising that some of the people you consider friends & loved ones are suppressing you because of their own traumas, anxieties, insecurities
  (resurfaced 2× · 60 likes · 2021-05-15 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1393416903549362180)
- As much as the media likes to focus on sex and violence and so on, the best selling game of all time isn’t Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty, but Minecraft. A game where you build.  Long gamers
  (resurfaced 2× · 60 likes · 2020-10-06 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1313280140286128129)
- A short story about a messiah-prophet-guru who’s just really fucking bored and lonely all the time because he cannot relate to anybody’s small talk
  (resurfaced 2× · 60 likes · 2020-09-08 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1303179146307104769)
- Bertrand Russell, a friendly ambitious nerd for the ages. ❤️💪🏾🔥
  (resurfaced 2× · 60 likes · 2020-10-06 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1313470423779082240)
- @ADHD_Alien been thinking lately that ADHD is better framed as obedience deficit disorder
  (resurfaced 2× · 60 likes · 2019-11-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1191427644513906689)
- imo there's roughly 4 things to do  - figure out how you were fucked up by your childhood, upbringing, etc and fix that - find good people that you'd like to spend your life with - follow your curiosity - laugh a lot https://x.com/novasnek/status/1040299193439580160
  (resurfaced 2× · 60 likes · 2018-09-15 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1040920485993705473)
- 103. I didn't think I was going to share any moth memes but this one has me gagging
  (resurfaced 2× · 60 likes · 2018-10-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1047392788621320192)
- Jovidah from kitchen knife forums dot com articulating a universal truth: the hardest thing is figuring out your own preferences (h/t @mengwong)
  (resurfaced 2× · 59 likes · 2022-06-18 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1538000440423354370)
- my greatest achievement is my marriage, if we have kids it’ll be them too. and my friends, and all the people I’ve introduced to each other. my life is really simple in principle, all of the answers to all of these questions are the same. # of shining eyes https://x.com/sayestheorem/status/1437764550921625606
  (resurfaced 2× · 59 likes · 2021-09-14 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1437768397635432450)
- words I just said in a video:  "I'm a very literary guy. I'm a very words guy. I'm a text-based man."
  (resurfaced 2× · 59 likes · 2020-01-11 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1215911906357047297)
- this is excellent (h/t @mechanicalmonk1)  https://nickpunt.com/blog/deescalating-social-media/
  (resurfaced 2× · 59 likes · 2020-07-13 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1282609194726600705)
- 100 ebook ideas
  (resurfaced 2× · 59 likes · 2020-03-07 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1236124041510936577)
- library books are evidence that there are strangers out in the world who love you and care about you, even though they don’t know who you are
  (resurfaced 2× · 59 likes · 2020-02-04 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1224593149424615424)
- 45. Ryan Koopmans' "A Sense Of Place". There's something evocative about the way he frames things – his sense of scale, perspective and context all feel very fresh and immersive. Somehow different from"look at this cool photo" – it's more about the vibe https://t.co/jsGfoWs0EM
  (resurfaced 2× · 59 likes · 2018-10-02 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1047102918770343936)
- And I’m on my way to believing ❤️
  (resurfaced 2× · 59 likes · 2019-05-04 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1124714325468270593)
- @patio11 There are only two questions you need to ask  1. Does it spark joy?  2. Can you make the unit economics work?
  (resurfaced 2× · 59 likes · 2019-04-04 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113635677294354433)
- having passionately dicked around with words for many years, i've come to find that big words don't flummox people nearly as much as convoluted structure. it's actually possible to use some gargantuan words and still be easy to read. you just need clear sentences to deliver them
  (resurfaced 2× · 59 likes · 2018-10-09 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1049734322582745088)
- I'm currently into my 3rd month of being a free agent – happily unemployed, growing out my hair, eating and sleeping at weird hours, tweeting excessively... and I absolutely love it. I don't think I would have had the guts to do this if not for these POVs on time and space
  (resurfaced 2× · 59 likes · 2018-09-29 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046057535990616065)
- DG: also, these countries have already paid back what they borrowed 3-4x over, but through the miracle of compound interest, there’s no significant dent in the principal
  (resurfaced 2× · 59 likes · 2018-11-22 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065540464911077377)
- @nobu_hibiki "You only close the gap between what you make and the image of perfection in your mind with a sea of imperfect work.”  it took hokusai like 100+ paintings over ~80 years to make his great wave  you have to make the not-great stuff there is no avoiding that
  (resurfaced 2× · 58 likes · 2024-06-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1802763730608164935)
- 1. what if you have a perpetual dissatisfaction complex within yourself that’s keeping you from ever really connecting with someone in deep mutual intimacy
  (resurfaced 2× · 58 likes · 2023-03-31 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1641842808423317505)
- and I don't mean in a good way. it's alienating. it's isolating. it's a curse. I feel like I was struck by lightning and I didn't die, and instead it elevated the voltage in my nervous system to something quite difficult to bear, and I have electric hands... ah fuck i'm elsa lol
  (resurfaced 2× · 58 likes · 2021-11-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1462859678459645954)
- [Meme Monday] Singaporean Lo-Fi Girl  https://t.co/KwIAp25NQA
  (resurfaced 2× · 58 likes · 2020-09-23 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1308775368984207361)
- there's a meme of "be the americans that hongkong / cuba thinks you are"  I get the sense that this spirit of america will outlast america the country. like america could implode as an empire/nation but the flag will live on
  (resurfaced 2× · 58 likes · 2021-07-30 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1421000189716828162)
- it’s important to know that this is how all accolades feel.  Here’s Jim Carrey: https://x.com/seanmombo/status/1427792716390359043
  (resurfaced 2× · 58 likes · 2021-08-18 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1427830525423546372)
- occurred to me that my "solution" or "alternative" to "capitalism" is to develop a giant network of gift economies in parallel  i don't entirely know how the big picture will look, i'm working on the small pictures for now, but lol as usual my answer to everything is Friends
  (resurfaced 2× · 58 likes · 2020-12-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1341358856128012288)
- The Gettysburg Address was only 6 tweets long
  (resurfaced 2× · 58 likes · 2020-01-31 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1223248286233980928)
- post-run thought: for me, the difference between “physical activity as playful exploration” and “physical activity as solemn obligation/responsibility” is almost as dramatic as “fun learning adventure on twitter” vs “go to school”
  (resurfaced 2× · 58 likes · 2020-02-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1231366590869823489)
- To the one defecating here. Beware of the curse. If you look down on this curse, may you have an angry Jupiter for an enemy.  – III.5.1 (House of Pascius Hermes; left of the door); 7716
  (resurfaced 2× · 58 likes · 2018-12-11 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072436153259835392)
- I’ve met a lot of people who feel overwhelmed by the prospect of doing big things  But actually just do small things as much as you can and the market will pull the gd stuff out of you, help you along the way  Some of my bestselling tshirts at @jibabom were suggested by customers
  (resurfaced 2× · 58 likes · 2019-01-07 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082393875891666944)
- there are no men like me  only me  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDPIBgKQOD0
  (resurfaced 2× · 58 likes · 2019-01-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084036176015634432)
- 3. every week or so, export all your bookmarks into a HTML file. this is the simplest, cleanest, fastest, most elegant way I've found of doing it. you can copy these links into your Notes app, or Evernote, or whatever. I go with Notes
  (resurfaced 2× · 58 likes · 2019-01-11 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083565719520833537)
- I'm reading an MLK Jr lecture and it's entertaining how many references he casually throws in. In just one lecture:  St. Matthew Nietzsche Ovid Plato St. Augustine Thomas Carlyle Freud Edgar Allan Poe Shakespeare Franklin Frazier Lincoln HG Wells Napoleon
  (resurfaced 2× · 57 likes · 2020-05-22 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1263892241405210625)
- Dropped by @ChangiAirport for fun and wow it’s deserted... feels sad man. 🥺 it’s usually bustling in non-pandemic times
  (resurfaced 2× · 57 likes · 2021-01-18 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1351146349316759558)
- The Local Cuisine problem - described by formerly colonized people everywhere- Brazil, India, Indonesia, whatever - is that the most delicious and unique food you can get is also stuff that locals aren’t willing to pay $$$ for, because it’s not prestigious locally
  (resurfaced 2× · 57 likes · 2020-06-06 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269415005528588290)
- i've done a bunch of reading over the years about cortisol, caffeine, nicotine, adrenaline, blood sugar, insulin, the vagus nerve, anxiety – it's all still chaotic in my head, but I think there's a powerful sciency/gwern-y blogpost to be written about how it all comes together https://x.com/visakanv/status/1261482736214175745
  (resurfaced 2× · 57 likes · 2020-05-16 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1261483681304043520)
- A piece of chocolate with the morning coffee really hits the spot
  (resurfaced 2× · 57 likes · 2020-04-19 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1252011264043147264)
- "static" is an important distinction, because genius is idiot-in-motion, idiot-at-work, persistently pursuing dumb questions to the ends of the earth
  (resurfaced 2× · 56 likes · 2020-06-15 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1272484382003965952)
- Obsessed with this painting: The Kiss II (1992, oil on canvas on masonite), by Mark Stock
  (resurfaced 2× · 56 likes · 2022-08-11 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1557545398952083456)
- if you could mouseover each box and have it display information, this is basically the densest way to display the most amount of info in a 2d space  I want something that's in between twitter threads, tweetgraph (@ollybot_redux's webapp, on the right) and a roam graph view
  (resurfaced 2× · 56 likes · 2020-11-18 · Programming & Code · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1329094444939841537)
- Singaporeans who’ve never left the country typically assume that all protests are basically war zones - because that’s all you’ll see in the local media (which is, of course, cherry-picked by the Editors) https://x.com/astateofhalil/status/1185640771518652419
  (resurfaced 2× · 56 likes · 2019-10-20 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1185825456324431873)
- It’s finally supposedly happening, people are apparently getting paid something like $20(?) to plug consumer products in the replies to their viral tweets. I think the pricing sounds roughly correct, and it’s interesting to analyze + think about
  (resurfaced 2× · 56 likes · 2020-05-20 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1263100246034223114)
- @verohecko being smart vs being kind
  (resurfaced 2× · 56 likes · 2019-06-06 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1136672810963574784)
- 😂 I guess it’s like white lady yoga making it to India https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/12/korea-paris-baguette-chain-expands-french-bakery
  (resurfaced 2× · 56 likes · 2019-05-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1130381682475847680)
- 18. I love Kanye, despite the dumb shit he’s said from time to time. I think he’s a real artist. Time will tell. But I’d bet on him. Hopefully he still has a long life and career ahead of him
  (resurfaced 2× · 56 likes · 2018-05-10 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994559153233260546)
- Assholes are the 1% of people that cause 74% of the problems everywhere they go  The challenge is to deal with assholes without becoming an asshole yourself in the process  It’s sadly-funny and true that anti-assholes are some of the worst assholes https://x.com/visakanv/status/976297392440934400?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 56 likes · 2018-09-26 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044890242757455872)
- I am kinda hooked on Inspirobot, a bot that generates inspiring posters https://inspirobot.me/
  (resurfaced 2× · 56 likes · 2018-11-29 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068117716211355650)
- If my enlightenment doesn’t allow shitposting I do not want it https://x.com/visakanv/status/996326044868096000?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 56 likes · 2018-10-05 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048059343814283264)
- 10. was chatting with a friend about an essay idea tentatively titled "goodboyism" ("good boy"-ism). started with me laughing at this line from a sza song: https://x.com/visakanv/status/1775092598727901222
  (resurfaced 2× · 55 likes · 2024-04-15 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1779948175476068536)
- when I’ve introduced 10,000 people to each other through meticulous 1-1 introductions somebody will come along and say “well you know you can’t really create a scene, you can only create the conditions and hope one emerges, so visa got really lucky there” and I will smile and nod
  (resurfaced 2× · 55 likes · 2021-09-12 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1436952815079854081)
- It’s interesting to observe the dynamics of my nephews with my older siblings. Having at least one other peer your age is so powerful when you’re young. You get to build a shared lexicon/universe that everyone else has no choice but to acknowledge & respect. I didn’t have this
  (resurfaced 2× · 55 likes · 2019-12-05 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1202452177119137792)
- Puja, a poem by Rohan Naidu  (from This Is Not A Safety Barrier https://www.ethosbooks.com.sg/products/this-is-not-a-safety-barrier)
  (resurfaced 2× · 55 likes · 2018-10-29 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1056862932959543296)
- @deepfates @Rididelduol it's too late. you are here. you are hot now
  (resurfaced 2× · 55 likes · 2021-06-03 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1400488556741550081)
- I’m gonna do it  draw 100 fucking owls  4.
  (resurfaced 2× · 55 likes · 2021-02-04 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1357420593327427585)
- Dietrich has skin in the game – he has a pilot's license, has a hanger full of planes that he actually flies, is fit and handsome... if I could be the personal assistant to a billionaire — since Steve's not around any more — I'd probably pick Dietrich. Yeah,,, over Elon 🤔
  (resurfaced 2× · 55 likes · 2019-02-11 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094946164129103872)
- 1. Steel rail made in 1896  2. how they're made now, inspected with ultrasound and lasers  The most important step is "hot rolling the steel" – it's not really relevant to what I want to talk about but it's cool to know. Basically putting the steel thru rollers, like dough
  (resurfaced 2× · 55 likes · 2018-10-06 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048496734479867904)
- Love seeing the positivity and support on /r/singapore. As of today, we have had a total of 67 infections – 17 have recovered and been discharged. All of the clusters of spread are known, and are being monitored. We got this. 🇸🇬💪🏾❤️🔥
  (resurfaced 2× · 55 likes · 2020-02-14 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1228343530478657543)
- "Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything." – Ray Bradbury  we don't have to wait that long! we can be loving, nourishing, nurturing, supportive now. everyone is starving for it   https://x.com/1000wordvomits/status/881569254948163585
  (resurfaced 2× · 55 likes · 2019-03-24 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1109890155588939776)
- Morning! Whenever I go anywhere, I make it a point to pick up the local papers - I consistently find that it gives me a sense of the culture and context. It’s often the little things, like ads and language choices. I would never see that Indonesia headline in Singapore l
  (resurfaced 2× · 55 likes · 2019-04-28 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1122528922447388674)
- I wanted to be a good writer, but made little progress. Set a goal to write a million words. 700k words later, I’m a discernibly better writer  I wanted to be fit, but made little progress. Set a goal of doing 1000 total pullups. 50 pullups later, I’m discernibly fitter  🤔🤔🤔
  (resurfaced 2× · 55 likes · 2019-01-13 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084519965980381184)
- funny/silly/crazy thing is, very often, the moment you step into the maker role, or on stage, etc, you almost immediately forget everything you knew or thought you knew when you were on the other end  so much of a maker's journey is about rediscovering the joy of being a fan
  (resurfaced 2× · 55 likes · 2018-12-18 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075091316390809600)
- @meekaale @Malcolm_Ocean @LordChisholm “perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony”- GK Chesterton
  (resurfaced 2× · 54 likes · 2021-12-20 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1472877997057183745)
- it's this simple boys  c'mon go get sexy
  (resurfaced 2× · 54 likes · 2021-06-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1407778677438312452)
- An idea that I have but I haven’t specifically articulated:  1. Most people respond as you would expect them to according to the system of incentives around them  2. Some people don’t - and this is IMO because they’re navigating by some other set of incentives, often imaginary
  (resurfaced 2× · 54 likes · 2019-05-12 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1127583005931855877)
- Anybody else been paying to the proliferation of this leafy aesthetic? This is in SG Starbucks
  (resurfaced 2× · 54 likes · 2019-04-12 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1116708722149969921)
- “First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.”  ― Peter Ellis
  (resurfaced 2× · 54 likes · 2018-12-09 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071861776663306240)
- I came back to get another sandwich 😍🥰 https://x.com/visakanv/status/1125920283909476352
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2022-08-10 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1557174738123755520)
- Going through the Mister Global photos for aesthetic inspiration, here are my personal favorites as I go down the list  Sri Lanka Panama Haiti Guam
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2019-09-29 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1178321927472959490)
- "Sing us a song / And we'll sing it back to you / We could sing our own / But what would it be without you?"  - Paramore, My Heart  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZIQMJrExpI
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2019-12-11 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1204654889894154240)
- I don’t believe that status is a zero sum game, not in a way that matters
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2021-03-29 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1376411093216632836)
- Honestly, this guy should be at every political debate in every country in the world. The null hypothesis
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2019-03-16 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106836329743044608)
- I am generally uncertain, conflicted and "in two (or more) minds" about most things, which is something that seems to confuse people who are wander through these parts expecting Ideological Opponents
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2020-07-02 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1278614941684006913)
- HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2019-01-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087398888544206849)
- (There IS also something interesting to be said about how there's a certain "robber baron turned philanthropist" aspect to speaking out against The Struggle after you've already gotten the fruits of your labor from The Struggle – but that's a whole 'nother story I think)
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2018-10-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1054408288639451136)
- Ugh fields  https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EFQ3F6kmt4WHXRqik/ugh-fields
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2019-05-12 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1127418797785092096)
- 40. employment rate over time
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2019-07-13 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149923982218391553)
- surprising to realize that I'm not exactly entirely sure what I think is the most exciting thing in the world right now  if I go by my own internal compass/gyroscope, I think it's the fact that people dramatically still underestimate how much social capital you can create online
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2019-05-22 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1131137046490181632)
- I find myself using "❤️🤓💪🏾" as a set fairly often and I enjoy how it's somehow a succinct distillation of "be sensitive, smart and strong", which is also "be a friendly, encouraging nerd". my whole brand in 3 emojis
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2019-04-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113708235758821376)
- my answer to peter thiel's "what important truth do very few people agree with you on" is kind of meta – that truth itself, in practice, apart from the hard sciences, is ~ a political concept. truth is fashion, truth is kayfabe, truth is intersubjective https://x.com/visakanv/status/970031924818321408
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2019-02-20 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1098126954073546752)
- via @mbabwahsingh  https://t.co/cT3gFqhCjb
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2018-12-18 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074983250836152320)
- There's a boldness in motion, a simplicity, an aspiration to strength – and also a certain... deconstruction? It's a little bit trippy. Something about the contrasts & angles, a taking-apart of things. It's decisively NOT 'organic'. You can see Ayn Rand in this (she was Russian)
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2018-01-20 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/954593183681228801)
- It’s not very intuitive until you think about it: If you want to change someone’s mind, you can’t get them to change every little detail of their entire worldview over the course of one conversation. Rather you have to pick one point that you think will gnaw at them from inside
  (resurfaced 2× · 53 likes · 2018-08-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1032813871201804288)
- Moana is a great story for getting into this. there's nothing actually wrong with her, her deep confusion is a function of the elaborate lies that her family and community have wrought around her to protect her
  (resurfaced 2× · 52 likes · 2023-12-07 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1732761002964406291)
- from time to time I see people with poor redteam literacy get absolutely crushed by saying things that sound fine to them, but are interpreted horribly by others  at the most extreme scales of course you cannot stop people from deliberately misinterpreting you in a hostile way,
  (resurfaced 2× · 52 likes · 2022-03-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1505983810659229701)
- Clio’s Dream, a life-sized sculpture made by Joan Coderch and Javier Malavia in 2020
  (resurfaced 2× · 52 likes · 2023-04-15 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1647253581068738563)
- Nikolai Vavilov (1887-1943). Devoted his life to ending famine. Started the world's first seedbank. Was sentenced to death by Stalin for criticizing Lysenko, whose erroneous agricultural theories led to famines killing millions in both USSR and PRC. Died in prison
  (resurfaced 2× · 52 likes · 2023-01-28 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1619426428638089218)
- I’ve missed this 🥰
  (resurfaced 2× · 52 likes · 2022-05-31 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1531540000675794945)
- I still think this is the best thing to have come out of stoicism, everything else I find sorta tedious but this is like delightful cheeky zen master judo
  (resurfaced 2× · 52 likes · 2021-12-12 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1469992545052553220)
- one of these companies makes AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles but it's anybody's guess tbh
  (resurfaced 2× · 52 likes · 2021-03-26 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1375534430689837061)
- This tweet got me curious to see what a circus performer's job application looks like, and it's like this  basically, if a job is actually exciting, they won't have to advertise it as such. you'd already know https://x.com/_RobertSchultz/status/1412470172485521408
  (resurfaced 2× · 52 likes · 2021-07-09 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1413365915526209539)
- looking at old youtube videos  I was making videos to track my guitar progress  but all I can think of now when I look at these is my childhood home. It didn't occur to me, while I was recording these, that my parents might someday sell the house
  (resurfaced 2× · 52 likes · 2020-07-25 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1287139503925207042)
- The 4 appetites:  Wrath -> direct towards injustice and ignorance, not people  Greed -> acquire knowledge, insight, relationships, not material wealth  Lust -> “conquer” heart and minds, not bodies  Gluttony -> consume quality, not quantity - be mindful of diminishing returns
  (resurfaced 2× · 52 likes · 2018-11-06 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1059887271124512768)
- someone quote-tweeted one of my "build an audience" tweets with a very interesting disagreement that I want to explore. they're a small account so I don't want to stress them out by quote-tweeting them in turn. but lemme break it down
  (resurfaced 2× · 52 likes · 2020-10-12 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1315598237391233024)
- I love watching the teenagers that have lunch at the coffeeshop near my place:  - Groupings are mostly gendered, either all boys or all girls. Exceptions are usually minority kids  - boy groups tend larger than girl groups. Most groups are 3 to 6. Boys go up to 10+, girls don’t
  (resurfaced 2× · 52 likes · 2018-07-30 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1023824006162526214)
- trust nobody not even yourself
  (resurfaced 2× · 52 likes · 2018-12-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078312619591708673)
- Cinderella can seem like a boring story on the surface – the interesting part of the story is what didn’t happen. She didn’t allow her experience to turn her into a bitter, angry person. It’s a story about breaking the cycle of abuse
  (resurfaced 2× · 52 likes · 2018-07-05 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014820898652557314)
- when sleeping earlier (went to bed at 11 and I’m up at 130 sigh lol, classic) I was sorta visited with some thoughts about deities, theatre, drama, Santa Claus, even the WWE. Thinkin’ bout egragores, “the spirits”, “ancestors guide us” and so on
  (resurfaced 2× · 51 likes · 2022-03-01 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1498718339723509762)
- this 2016 post from @morganhousel reaffirmed my conviction that being a marketer is the best way for me to do the greatest good I can do in the world. if I can help cut down the time it takes people to notice brilliance by 6 months, I've helped accelerate progress by that much https://x.com/productnerd/status/1578736370298015752
  (resurfaced 2× · 51 likes · 2022-10-08 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1578743566104662023)
- "If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet... of mutual understanding, I don't expect it will come from a government, a military force or a corporation. [...] I expect it will come from the artists, because that's what we do." – Karl Paulnack  https://x.com/abhiart/status/1372874035227426818
  (resurfaced 2× · 51 likes · 2021-03-19 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1372887420522270720)
- if you’re serious about thinking about your positioning, it can change your positions
  (resurfaced 2× · 51 likes · 2021-05-20 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1395243941335732231)
- Michelangelo, PM @ Basilica Sancti Petri. prev: David, Pietà, Capella Sistina (ceiling). 🧑‍🎨🎨
  (resurfaced 2× · 51 likes · 2021-02-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1364423292854001664)
- @bubbleteaPhD me normally: lol who cares about countries, we are children of books and the internet, citizens of the world, national boundaries are parochial and outdated  someone: haha yeah small countries belong to large countries mirite  me:
  (resurfaced 2× · 51 likes · 2020-10-08 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1314117344759701504)
- shit like this might be extremely cringe – it might even be fake false flag stuff, or parody/satire – it doesn't actually matter. the point is that it becomes the most entertaining spectacle on the planet. the entry fee? you gotta learn American to participate. culture victory
  (resurfaced 2× · 51 likes · 2020-11-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1325520339883888640)
- This is kind of my strategy, if you’ve noticed from my threads. I don’t try too hard to discipline or rein in my mind (I’ll never be as good as others) - I just keep notes of what it’s up to. The difference between useful science and dicking around is reporting your findings
  (resurfaced 2× · 51 likes · 2018-11-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1059883438616924160)
- come to me, my dudes. don't burden women with your issues https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022789964889649152
  (resurfaced 2× · 51 likes · 2018-09-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042732585967792130)
- Wow this bit from French economist Bruno Theret is a galaxy-brain level take. There’s a relationship between the debt of human existence itself, to the Gods, and the debt we have to each other...? Wild. I ship it.
  (resurfaced 2× · 51 likes · 2018-11-22 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065677751175139328)
- my 6-month hiatus from salaryman life has confirmed a lot of my suspicions about myself
  (resurfaced 2× · 51 likes · 2018-12-18 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075116275985113088)
- Great scene, highly recommend for all the newlyweds and soon-to-be-marrieds. The challenge is to have this sort of conversation without being mean or contemptuous towards each other
  (resurfaced 2× · 51 likes · 2018-12-15 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073999354753560577)
- went looking for the original quote from Mill  > And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" At this my heart sank within me  he goes on to describe how it was the work of artists and poets that lifted his spirit  https://www.utilitarianism.com/millauto/five.html
  (resurfaced 2× · 50 likes · 2021-10-21 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1451085600593825792)
- On a tangential note, I really dislike the phrase “online classroom”. I consider myself thoroughly webschooled, & the whole point was to get away from everything about the classroom. Tech innovation is not about copying the old, but about figuring out what’s possible with the new https://x.com/calhistorian/status/1249818977242468353
  (resurfaced 2× · 50 likes · 2020-06-04 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1268446765272965120)
- Okay I think I’m gonna watch Lawrence of Arabia today! Just noticed from the poster that Obi Wan (Alec Guinness) is in it. I don’t recognize any of the other names https://x.com/visakanv/status/1307026363342229504
  (resurfaced 2× · 50 likes · 2020-09-21 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1308012649276272641)
- awake ppl fav this so that tipsy can scroll thru the favs and follow you https://x.com/Tipsycaek/status/1297485214038425600
  (resurfaced 2× · 50 likes · 2020-08-23 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1297496372145315841)
- It’s been about 48 hours since the lying fraud @tellyoursonthis made the BS claim that 70 children in Singapore - presumably from Palm View Primary School - are infected with covid  Why count the hours? Let me tell you a little bit about how Singapore works https://x.com/visakanv/status/1246520367364988928
  (resurfaced 2× · 50 likes · 2020-04-06 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1247098836750716929)
- candid snapshot of my workspace without tidying up
  (resurfaced 2× · 50 likes · 2020-03-15 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1239087197011062785)
- Finally, I have an answer to the question “what is your favorite Picasso painting?” https://x.com/graceelavery/status/1121628895411761152
  (resurfaced 2× · 50 likes · 2020-01-22 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1219844599557971968)
- 15th century Florence was something special - 84 woodcarvers, 83 silkworkers, 30 master painters, 44 goldsmiths. It was a banking center. A third of the population was literate (highest in Europe). Leading thinkers embraced a Renaissance humanism. Trade brought ideas
  (resurfaced 2× · 50 likes · 2018-04-13 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/984736105483329536)
- collaboration is humanizing and empowering, and the inability to collaborate is dehumanizing and disempowering. This is true at the smallest and largest scales. A conversation with a dear friend vs “talking to a wall”. A city building public transportation and housing vs not
  (resurfaced 2× · 49 likes · 2022-04-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1514833206989635588)
- aww-ing at my 21 year old self being startled and amused by the wisdom of my 16 year old self  "Legion of Heroes" was my more dramatic precursor to "Friendly Ambitious Nerds"
  (resurfaced 2× · 49 likes · 2023-06-03 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1665129835826487299)
- googled "military logistics quotes", because these folks get it  quoted tweet is also in the same spirit  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1077735976468832256
  (resurfaced 2× · 49 likes · 2020-05-10 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1259371757217038338)
- if you argue for your limitations you get to keep them  any power user smart enough to know how to wrangle a large audience possesses the cognitive machinery required to learn a new medium  good musicians make good painters and vice versa once/if they get past the initial hump
  (resurfaced 2× · 49 likes · 2020-07-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1281772777431642112)
- would you invest in me? I would invest in me  currently I still make less $ than I did in paycheck life, but in paycheck life I had to show up to work every day, whereas I can sell ebooks in my sleep
  (resurfaced 2× · 49 likes · 2021-07-24 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1419023743926423560)
- when I am done this one single page on roam is going to be better than my entire twitter and my entire blog. I can't fucking believe it. all it took was block references. when I edit a referenced block, it changes in the reference, too. my god
  (resurfaced 2× · 49 likes · 2020-06-02 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1267736436398157825)
- A thing my superforecaster-adjacent nerd brain is tempted to do is to collect & thread people’s predictions- to build, over time, a robust map of the predictive value of people’s utterances  Could do it on an locked alt... main thing stopping me is that it seems socially unhinged
  (resurfaced 2× · 49 likes · 2020-02-28 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1233426208999661568)
- People have been indoctrinated to think “smart” is “good” and “dumb” is “bad”. It might seem that way but I gets more complicated than that in practice. You have to risk dumb to do almost anything interesting. Smart then can become a trap https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088347054974201858?s=21 https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088347054974201858
  (resurfaced 2× · 49 likes · 2020-06-15 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1272642063754858498)
- Hating narcissists incentivises narcissists (who enjoy the attention and love to be hated) and disincentivizes non-narcissists (who exit because they don’t want to appear narcissistic)
  (resurfaced 2× · 49 likes · 2019-04-10 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1115769889602428934)
- been learning a lot about my novel by sitting on it for a year w/o looking at it, then talking about it from memory. It becomes clearer which parts of the story are strong, & which bits are weak. I forget some characters entirely, & revisit some bits and scenes more than others
  (resurfaced 2× · 49 likes · 2019-02-23 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1099306467524456448)
- 8. The frame is a useful constraint if you think beyond it  https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/01/how-steve-jobs-faked-his-way-through-unveiling-the-iphone.html
  (resurfaced 2× · 49 likes · 2018-12-15 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074037807679586304)
- @fortelabs I’m convinced people don’t even really want sex as much as they want to feel sexy/desirable/virile etc etc
  (resurfaced 2× · 49 likes · 2018-09-14 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1040399409819770881)
- Japanese redditors experimenting with English
  (resurfaced 2× · 49 likes · 2018-05-15 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/996328730149580800)
- Trying to figure out what was going on re: caste is very difficult – it seems to me that many migrants to Singapore (including untouchable convicts who were shipped over) deliberately chose to leave those details blank. John Solomon describes it as "conscious acts of forgetting"
  (resurfaced 2× · 49 likes · 2018-05-26 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000459457686454272)
- It was basically a content farm - the workers lived and are in close quarters, and they mass produced collaborative, unsigned works. The goal was to produce a constant flow of marketable art and artifacts, rather than nurture creative geniuses. Reminds me of art shops in Krabi 🤔
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2018-04-13 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/984758475140902912)
- in the replies of a discussion about guitar technique earlier someone asked me why I suggested ~"X" instead of ~"XYZ" and I said "your way is better, my way is easier"  to be more precise, better-sounding vs easier-playing  what I didnt say was... for beginners, easier is better
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2023-02-12 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1624838081982648320)
- i keep expecting to feel like I'll be "done" (stretching my hips and hamstrings) but every couple of days it feels like I'm finding some new tenseness and tightness that I couldn't even perceive before because I was too numb
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2021-10-13 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1448183962543669251)
- me writing in my daily log: "so today I woke up late, bought some soya milk and char kway teow, watched some crashcourse, food coma'd for a couple of hours, cleaned up my desk, researched the phrase "memed into existence", then spent a full hour making memes about ambiguity"
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2021-07-26 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1419763858256789509)
- was watching the sunset – and this guy next to me was doing the same, but with french fries. you ever witness a beautiful stranger and they inspire you to live your best life? this guy was like that for me. I was forever changed by mr "yes I would like fries with my sunset"
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2019-05-16 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1129058656719331328)
- The first 13 cents is the hardest
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2020-12-23 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1341798140983214082)
- @cryptojeezus the thing to do when you don’t get what you want is to investigate why exactly you wanted it, which is a path to self-knowledge. Cope is when you’re bitter about what you didn’t get. Flourishing is when you realize you are so much more than getting or not getting what you want
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2020-12-24 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1342178302329380868)
- loosely  1. reduce your burn rate to as close to 0 as possible (live with others, learn to cook)  2. work any shit job you get that gives you $  3. save as much as you can  4. create as much public-facing creative output as you can  5. ask the best ppl you know for advice
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2020-02-27 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1233047450782298112)
- Dinner 😋 this is bak kut teh, literally means “meat bone tea”, or what hipsters call “bone broth soup”. This is how the OG Singaporean grandpas eat it
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2020-01-31 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1223192743637221376)
- I think I'd frame it like this: "people can and will change. more than you can know, more than you can imagine, or even understand. and also, all the way at the end of a person's life, you'll find that there are things about them that were there from the very start"
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2019-11-13 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1194671910476345344)
- this is one of my favorite reads of all time, and it is about teenagers growing up on tumblr. very thoughtful and human https://newrepublic.com/article/129002/secret-lives-tumblr-teens
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2019-01-22 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087714743433850880)
- Building deep, strong relationships with people who will ugly-cry at your funeral requires the very opposite of "chill"
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2017-09-03 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/904360783571759104)
- Good ads aren’t about what looks impressive, but about what sells.  “How well he speaks” vs “let us march against Philip.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2018-11-11 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061720093783027718)
- Pretty wild that you can summon a human in a mobile transport (powered by burning fossil fuels) to your location in minutes, just by tapping on your magic glass rectangle that emits invisible electromagnetic signals to an elaborate network & identifies your position via satellite
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2018-10-16 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052093772761161728)
- If ya'll liked this you'd also like my slides on "how to write good for the interwebs" https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/how-to-write-good-42635109/42635109
  (resurfaced 2× · 48 likes · 2018-06-12 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1006545028976504832)
- he’s about to outgrow this onesie any minute now
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2023-12-21 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1737654458556039330)
- @Malcolm_Ocean @utotranslucence @this_is_silvia 🥲 I wouldn’t be here without the clunky, janky, messy, imperfect past version of myself
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2022-04-30 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1520462856654778368)
- great small accounts (<1k) jul'22  @reneesolana @jennykatzmusic @ricvolpe @johnstokvis @mi_yanaa @parakeetnebula @michaeljlew @pythonrocksnake @p_ballaran @Earthman2022 @animalologist @danallison @AnotherPattern @Phreekedelic @SissiPhys @briandavidhall @JeanThinkin @itsgregormay https://x.com/visakanv/status/1537499054703140864
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2022-07-18 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1549128753011630081)
- most resistance is imaginary  some of it is real (sometimes because it's other people's imagination + backed with real force/violence/coercion, sometimes it's physics)  but most psycho-cultural guardrails are designed to keep out the most clueless, imperceptive of fools
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2020-11-10 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1326259742767919104)
- 59. which is to say: the hard thing about doing hard things is showing up, not quitting, and not dying, while the oldest and most powerful emotion in your body is screaming at you
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2021-09-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1435181520050814980)
- I do this for 1,000 people and I create like $100,000+/mo in wealth for my crew  some of that $ will help fund the cool projects  no contracts just trust and vibes and reciprocity  can’t lose
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2021-08-26 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1430800272431874052)
- I keep a list of everybody who has ever supported me, everybody who has ever collaborated with me, everybody who has ever been a patron, everybody who has ever bought an ebook. Inshallah I will reward them all
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2021-04-15 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1382605456657444864)
- Aphrodite
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2020-08-26 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1298515720964210688)
- It’s time for the Alphabet World Cup! Vote for your preferred letter alphabet to make it to the next round  1. Q vs P
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2020-03-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1243796705276907520)
- Apart from Thing Explainer, every single book on this shelf was bought for me by twitter friends 😩❤️🙏🏾  (Not pictured: Power Broker, Master&Emissary and Dune, which are on my bedside table)  Which should I read next? Probably Ways of Seeing, which is pretty short . Then...?
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2020-02-24 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1231775127764758528)
- The mainstream narrative I grew up in was something like: don’t waste time socialising. Focus on your studies. Get good at passing tests so you be honored with a job cranking out high-prestige widgets. Suppress your feelings, you will be happy once you accumulate power and wealth
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2019-11-14 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1194880018368696321)
- #collectivenouns  A bloat of boomers A malaise of millennials A cackle of conservatives A languish of liberals
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2017-06-25 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/878866191162396672)
- 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and possibly even incurring losses.
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2019-03-09 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1104337211640623104)
- My favorite part of this story is omitted!  In 1999, Yahoo bought Mark Cuban’s Broadcast dot com for $5.7B. At the time Broadcast had 570k users, so Yahoo was paying $10k/user.  It made Cuban a billionaire. He quickly sold his Yahoo stock, & bought a Gulfstream ✈️ online for $40m https://x.com/maybebullish/status/1140310957438226432
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2019-06-17 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1140717661342453760)
- Favorite gifs thread with search terms for future reference  1. spelling bee
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2019-01-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082384298374656000)
- I lost quite a bit of respect for Ricky Gervais when he spent a segment of his Netflix special literally mocking the stupidest responses he’s gotten on Twitter. This is too easy to do and frankly it’s intellectually & artistically dishonest
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2018-05-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998909615214444546)
- poor person: injustice is bad  critic: lol, you’re just whining because you’re a loser. Git gud  [poor person becomes rich]  rich person: injustice is bad  critic: lol, easy for you to say, you rich fucker. why do you have money?? hypocrite
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2019-02-01 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091278340831424517)
- here's a normative determinism flavored hypothesis:  people with uncommon names are likelier to develop uncommon identities  (not all uncommon people have uncommon names, but people with uncommon names are likelier than not to develop in uncommon ways)
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2018-05-02 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/991546535107162112)
- Learned helplessness: the mere opportunity to escape does not necessarily make traumatized animals, or people, take the road to freedom. Many give up. Rather than risk experimenting with new options, they stay stuck in the fear they know.
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2018-04-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981469776244391936)
- Idea: a play about a few characters who are all part of a single group chat. The chat is displayed onstage as they go about their lives, & you get to see the discrepancy between what they post and what's actually going on. The chat looks fine by itself but troubling with context
  (resurfaced 2× · 47 likes · 2018-01-27 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/957163395337175040)
- 8. I’m very excited for Nigerian twitter to go global, these fellas are on another level
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2022-09-15 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1570269128740732929)
- In case you think I’m exaggerating
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2021-03-07 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1368542333910745089)
- "O, fair enough, but I wish other people thought of me as a king!"  You have to earn your own respect before you earn the respect of anybody else.  (Grifters might *seem* to break this rule by courting fools, but that hellish choice is its own punishment)  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084569679685767168
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2019-12-09 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1203933031221714945)
- Incredibly thoughtful high-effort comment from an Indonesian on this video. I dream of a world where the global commons comment section is like this. Let’s make it happen 🌏❤️ https://x.com/visakanv/status/1350843584304406531
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2021-01-18 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1351142390967496706)
- In some ways I feel like I’m in a moshpit, with surging waves of humans, being swept up by the current of the crowd. I’ve been in these IRL. Trying to “stand your ground” can mean getting trampled. I feel like I’m glancing over the waves trying to make eye contact with my friends
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2020-06-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1268444834571800576)
- ah right, so modern architecture is basically built by the equivalent of Chidi Anagonye having a mental breakdown. It all makes sense now https://x.com/CharlestonArchi/status/1257057397509705729
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2020-05-04 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1257191352061681664)
- I know I’m home when I see the ships along the straits 🥰
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2019-12-08 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1203689525131632643)
- "that sounds difficult and scary" ok then ignore me and go to school  this is for people who don't want to go to school. if you don't wanna live in the zoo, you have to learn how to survive in the wild
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2020-02-27 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1233047608098058242)
- Mainstream social justice in the early 2010s got contaminated by assholes who were semi-indifferent to justice and hijacked it to pursue their goals of vengeance
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2018-11-21 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065116251083534336)
- On an unrelated note, what is the story behind this aesthetic for jukeboxes? Who designed them?  visabrain: get in loser we’re going exploring  me: no wait forget I asked  visabrain: *revs engine*  me: ur so bad ugh *gets in the car* https://x.com/eurogamer/status/1205498357860491269
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2019-12-13 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1205502205823840257)
- the love isn't a blind, thoughtless, blanket love  the love is a careful, considered, nuanced love  it's the love of having counted the characters  it's the love of rolling each and every word around in your mouth  it's the love that KNOWS, that when it's GOOD, it's GOOD
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2019-01-13 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084569679685767168)
- my backstory is a little different. When I was a teenager, when I chose to be "open, relaxed and uninhibited", I ended up being a total asshole to the people around me. I utterly bungled and damaged many relationships. My unfiltered mind wasn't full of warm loving thoughts!!
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2018-10-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1054397039788716033)
- 2. What do you want? Do you really want what you think you want, or did you inherit it from your parents, your peers, from society at large? If you want what everyone else wants, the laws of demand/supply means you’ll have to pay more for it, compete harder for it. Losing game
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2018-09-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1043925904987025408)
- sometimes I want to celebrate myself the way I celebrate my friends, but I hesitate bc my gut tells me it would be too easily parsed as narcissism  it’s the exact same feeling of appreciation, but it’s unlikely to be parsed that way  narcissists ruin self-love for the rest of us
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2019-01-29 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090366707187703808)
- author: what if robots were self-aware and had feelings and thoughts and goals of their own  audience: wow so profound what does it mean to be human? we are shook  author: what if women were self-aware and had feelings and thoughts and goals of their own  audience: lmao good one
  (resurfaced 2× · 46 likes · 2018-09-26 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044891942595653632)
- whenever I'm invited to speak at some community event – and I'm sort of like a beloved travelling cousin to a bunch of communities – I tend to say something like, "what you guys have here is amazing, I love it, and I wish you all a very merry Fuck Off From Here From Time To Time"
  (resurfaced 2× · 45 likes · 2022-12-06 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1600064005569417226)
- huge part of navigating this well is to accept the lossy nature of contextless comms in plaintext. like, it’s really not fruitful to get mad at each other for misunderstanding contextless strings of text. that any understanding happens *at all* is remarkable
  (resurfaced 2× · 45 likes · 2022-09-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1571032843387805696)
- 4: incels are people 5: nazis are people 6: rapists are people 7: npcs are people 8: sex workers are people 9: poor people are people 10: criminals are people 11: narcissists are people 12: refugees are people  epilogue: institutions, governments and corporations are not people
  (resurfaced 2× · 45 likes · 2018-10-17 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052494996190838784)
- Reginaldo delgi Scrovegni’s son Arrigo, “to expiate his father’s sin and clear the family name”, commissioned Giotto to fresco the Arena Chapel  Cosimo de Medici paid for the restoration of the Monastery of San Marco “in return for a papal bull clearing him of all his sins”  🤔
  (resurfaced 2× · 45 likes · 2019-04-20 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1119629138208280576)
- "When Beckham scored against Wimbledon in 1996 from the halfway line, the crowd saw a miracle. It was nothing of the sort. He had practiced that exact kick hundreds of times. When opportunity struck, he seized it."
  (resurfaced 2× · 45 likes · 2018-01-23 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/955842872653197312)
- when my avatar is chilling at home
  (resurfaced 2× · 45 likes · 2020-04-18 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1251417801006317569)
- 30. If your cyberpunk masterpiece doesn’t have a trans camgirl for a protagonist, it is trash
  (resurfaced 2× · 45 likes · 2019-06-20 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141552706554699778)
- self-loathing requires that you participate in the delusional conceit that you know who you are
  (resurfaced 2× · 45 likes · 2019-06-02 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135169356491399177)
- kid: how do you choose who to vote for in an election?  me: I ask myself, which of these candidates would I trust with my child, in the event of a zombie apocalypse?  kid: ??? you are so weird man  me: ha, you don’t know half of it
  (resurfaced 2× · 45 likes · 2019-02-25 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1100071758843936768)
- Reforming Menworld requires reforming and rehabilitating people's entire worldviews. This is a daunting task; effectively an infinite game. I believe it is worthwhile - each person we flip makes the world a slightly better place. A Good Father can enrich generations
  (resurfaced 2× · 45 likes · 2018-02-14 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/963613605571657729)
- You’re a teenage girl.  A teenage boy from your class waits for you outside school, corners you and says, “[Name], I have fallen in love with you. I want you to be my girlfriend. I won’t take no for an answer!”  What do you do?
  (resurfaced 2× · 45 likes · 2018-05-22 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998757501758717953)
- @nirbheek none of the other films are as good as Contact for me, none of them chase down the implications of their premises and model the consequences as thoroughly. they all feel like comparatively unserious works when measured against Contact
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2024-08-04 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1820108064386933136)
- mad lads
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2023-02-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1620781410830393344)
- doo bee doo
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2022-08-24 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1562406925047926784)
- and 200 years after John Stuart Mill was depressed and disheartened, I still get people coming into my DMs saying, almost verbatim, "I am trying to maximize utility but I must admit I'm fucking miserable"
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2021-10-15 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1448990350538776576)
- musician jokingly asks his fans to send him money, raises $100k in 2 hours (h/t @seyitaylor)  joke about the outcomes you want  https://x.com/davido/status/1460951236732022785
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2021-11-17 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1460988541857505284)
- 💡🚨fuck, this is what my book is about!!!!! 🚨 💡  I knew I was close I knew it I felt it in my stomach https://x.com/visakanv/status/1439895429617913861
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2021-09-22 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1440504443066150916)
- 26. How dare you not feel bad about yourself. Extremely selfish and rude
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2019-06-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141549302143041536)
- A succinct expression of rules 1, 2, 3 and 4 https://x.com/pronounced_ing/status/1079798478342156289?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2019-01-01 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1080242471903186945)
- @paulg Aside: I propose we drop "retweet-with-comment' altogether and stick to 'quote-tweet' (which you're already using in the same tweet!).  RTs, QTs. It's cleaner 🤓
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2019-02-16 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096718647056162816)
- suddenly clicked for me that this is kind of why people in my life sometimes seem to get extra mad when I calmly disregard their fight requests https://x.com/sadmoonanalog/status/1233826115413782533
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2020-03-01 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1234067237415186432)
- 25. mana is real and it is stored in the balls
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2019-06-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141547409505312768)
- Mission Benny! I’m little exhausted from all the (wonderful, lovely) peopling so I’m hanging out with @visakanv for a bit. Pretty cool guy, a bit weird but generally pleasant and sometimes funny
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2019-05-05 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1125146990721921024)
- Which isn't to say that I'm eager to exercise the banhammer, or to endorse a culture of censorship. Censorship has iatrogenic effects – ie the surgery can be more damaging than the disease, especially when the surgeon is empowered by a sense of moral superiority. It's complicated
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2018-12-11 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072396652454010881)
- “Why am I burned out? Because I’ve internalized the idea that I should be working all the time. Why have I internalized that idea? Because everything and everyone in my life has reinforced it — explicitly and implicitly — since I was young.” https://x.com/tamakloeee/status/1081899758564925440
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2019-01-06 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1081901447581642759)
- Finally properly watched Die Hard (think I watched it as a kid) and wow what a great movie. Well written, well shot, with lovable characters and great, thoughtful action that really utilizes the environment. So much love was put into it. Police, media, FBI, terrorists, all of it
  (resurfaced 2× · 44 likes · 2018-01-08 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/950391165068562432)
- crabs in a bucket but its a fractally recursive set of buckets that you have to claw your way out of  the chick has to fight its way out of the egg  there are many ways to model it, all models are wrong (and realizing that all models are wrong is one of the eggs to break)
  (resurfaced 2× · 43 likes · 2023-08-09 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1689067342226169856)
- This email from @dineshraju led to me working for him for 5.5 years - incredible work environment, I learned and grew a ton. I joke that he was like my therapist, except he paid *me*. *Incredible* opportunity for me, changed my life
  (resurfaced 2× · 43 likes · 2019-12-13 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1205377432766730243)
- My long running quiet obsession with the legislature of Agrabah is going to end up becoming nerdy Aladdin fanfiction and then eventually expand into my mid-game sprawling epic Game of Thrones which takes place in an AU stretching from Indonesia to Morocco
  (resurfaced 2× · 43 likes · 2021-11-30 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1465586091138768898)
- make yourself comfortable
  (resurfaced 2× · 43 likes · 2019-06-22 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142452053697937409)
- People online seem disproportionately litigious – everything is a goddamn case to be brought to court and tried.  We should never be gleeful to do this. Every law should be signed with mourning, "This is where we failed each other, and now require force."
  (resurfaced 2× · 43 likes · 2018-05-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998776138066411520)
- 9. Nitpickers are afraid of having sex, send tweet
  (resurfaced 2× · 43 likes · 2019-06-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141538782576906241)
- But every person is an entire universe. And it's quite radical, really, to simply sit down and take that in. Once you recognize that That Other Person is actually full of richness, nuance, struggles, etc, it becomes quite obvious that they matter; just as much as you do.
  (resurfaced 2× · 43 likes · 2019-11-08 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1192703653515157505)
- I will be reworking this over and over again until right before I ship it on March 1st, adding and consolidating more things, but in the meantime I think this decently-ish captures the tone of the book!  https://visakanv.gumroad.com/l/friendlynerdbook
  (resurfaced 2× · 43 likes · 2020-02-18 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1229748567423586308)
- I’ve been thinking lately about getting back into the blogging/longform game (which is where I started).  I’ve always thought “this thread should be a blogpost” is slightly mistaken. There’s something fundamentally different about making things at different scales https://x.com/visakanv/status/1159336202907971584
  (resurfaced 2× · 43 likes · 2019-11-10 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1193568157480284160)
- Ok last thing I’m gonna do for my birthday is make videos! Ask me a question and I’ll answer it in a video
  (resurfaced 2× · 43 likes · 2019-06-06 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1136644836340031493)
- "Every little success is just a stepping stone to inevitable failure" – my subconscious
  (resurfaced 2× · 43 likes · 2015-02-16 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/567137016467296256)
- "kingship = caring + daring" is a remarkably potent, succinct, evocative condensation. those map onto "friendly + ambitious" in my frame. Caring Daring Nerds lol  https://x.com/imperialauditor/status/1628139488961564694
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2023-02-24 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1629175643609960449)
- idk
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2022-10-16 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1581598503234506752)
- 1. introduction  come to believe that desire stems from the “heart”, not the mind  thinking seems to arise to protect self from consequences of blind heart-following  so Introspect is about seeking and attaining mind/heart synthesis, nourishing win-win relationship between the 2
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2021-11-05 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1456487926196367365)
- when I started getting media attention locally for some of the nonsense I was doing (outside of class B T W), I started getting praise from uncles and aunties: "clever boy, successful boy, very good"  It made me sick, actually. I realized that they don't think for themselves.
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2019-06-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142794841119584256)
- 9.
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2021-08-25 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1430614261366099971)
- oh apparently now it's time to make visa shed 100 tears 😭❤️
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2021-02-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1363234466190139392)
- And when adults are suspicious/wary of this, there is a legitimate concern there too. Which is that it’s extremely easy to fall into a ruse - into thinking people care about you, when they only care about the show that you’re putting on. (Or your ass pics, for eg)
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2019-07-18 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151891248258506752)
- I agree with ben horowitz that the hardest thing is managing your own psychology; everything else is just cranking widgets  I'm not perfect at it, but pretty good  https://x.com/jrdprr/status/1309881488574427144
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2020-09-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1309884091945213952)
- Been reading Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime and it’s even better than I expected. So much heart and humor, so thoughtful and honest. I love his mom so much. Had me laughing and crying by page 16. “Nobody ran like me and my mom”
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2020-03-03 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1234650586215141376)
- So like, why haven’t we disambiguated this, as a culture? You don’t want your kids to be obsessive popularity-seeking-at-all-cost zombies with no values or principles - but you surely don’t want your kids to be social outcasts either.
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2019-07-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1152115386919243778)
- A simple, often incorrect model of other people: “people have simple models of reality”  In reality, it seems to me that people have ~layers~ of models, some foreign even to themselves. The surface layers are polite fictions.  Peeling back the layers is more intimate than sex
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2019-06-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142731323955544064)
- 💪🏾❤️ The point of strength is to nourish others. I truly believe this. And I know there are others who believe it too.
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2019-06-03 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135647732952051712)
- I honestly, truly think that people just fundamentally don't understand risk.
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2019-08-18 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1163186575137599488)
- take notes
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2019-07-30 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1156151092847108096)
- Biden: I have no problem with amazon. I have a problem with the tax code  Amazon: Biden has no problem with Amazon. He has a problem with the tax code  Comments section: omg rekt!!!! Amazon just pwned Biden!!  Me: ???
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2019-06-14 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139432909587144704)
- I remember when I tried to go scuba diving when I barely knew how to swim. The panic and fear was primal, physiological. “Just face your fear!!!” is like telling a weak person to just bench 100kg. It’s not physically possible, they’ll likely *hurt* themselves and make it *worse*
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2019-01-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087286862140461062)
- It's an interesting + highly personal dilemma. Diaspora Indian communities are internally conflicted about this: do you tell your children the truth about how some of them are descended from castes that were considered inferior? Should you burn history books that were racist? 🤔
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2018-05-26 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000465800539459584)
- one of the tragic ways that women's art, perspectives, essays, etc are framed as "we must do this for gender equality purposes"  that's completely back-asswards  we must do this because women's POVs, having been so underrepresented, contain some of the freshest, best insights
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2018-09-24 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044156005720809472)
- I've been trying to find a way to write a novel where the real villain is not any particular bad guy but the merciless mob of everyday ppl
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2017-10-29 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/924717432765161472)
- 2 types of games: play to win, play to keep playing.  “It’s an invariable principle of all play, finite and infinite, that whoever plays, plays freely. Whoever *must* play, cannot *play*.”  🤔🤔 intuitively, “forced play” is obviously not true play. But what does “must” mean?
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2018-07-04 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014462049781407745)
- @simon_penn_r I created a "safe space for brown friends" group on FB, and I worried that it would end up being an echo chamber. But the folks in there question+doubt+challenge each other a LOT. In fact, they get to do it more effectively when they don't get distracted by noise. Makes me think
  (resurfaced 2× · 42 likes · 2018-01-28 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/957461334005710848)
- 60. via 'the art of cleanup', by ursus wehrli  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1402668141675651077
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2024-03-16 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1769041721860432279)
- I wrote @introspectvv to help people with self-sense and @FANswitchboard to help with people-sense. My voltaic verses substack will be about culture-sense and media-sense. It’ll be more complex than that but the big picture is becoming clearer
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2023-03-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1635345134928936961)
- you ever play one of those games where there's a balancing act you have to do? like, a lockpick interface, where you have to get the touchpad or something just right?  i'm thinking there's something similar about the right amount of self-regard, self-awareness. it's like surfing
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2019-06-02 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135157524573827073)
- we owe it to our predecessors who didn’t have access to all of this, to make absolutely full use of it and to push the boundaries further for all the other nerds to come
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2021-09-10 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1436128749561409537)
- Here is Marshall McLuhan dreaming to Ezra Pound of bringing 10 Erasmuses together.  Unfortunately for them, they did not have Twitter.  Fortunately for us, we do.  We will honor our predecessors by fulfilling their dreams https://x.com/chowcollection/status/1263575643322802178
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2021-10-14 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1448531013223600131)
- this actually nicely summarizes the best and worst things about me 😂  am practicing being less interrupt-y, but I just gotta say that the thing that makes me interrupt-y is the same thing that makes me ask the most interesting and unique questions
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2020-09-01 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1300819992615690240)
- According to art critic Henry McBride, the Steins' art collection was "just about the most potent of any that I have ever heard of in history."  He observed that Gertude "collected geniuses rather than masterpieces. She recognized them a long way off."
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2021-02-25 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1364900133993803777)
- @this_is_silvia @flancian once again an anon dude turns out to be hot  what is up with this
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2021-06-03 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1400417758756499465)
- @TheMysteryDrop lack of self-respect is the big one that immediately comes to mind  might not necessarily be in critically bad levels  but ask a person to think about who/what they respect, and then evaluate themselves as if they were someone else in the lineup
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2021-05-28 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1398308485947826178)
- naive techno-optimism is when you think about how tech will be used to liberate a group of people, but not how it will be used to abuse, blackmail and torment them  https://x.com/rachitaprasadET/status/1093779142292762624
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2019-02-08 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093798375286202368)
- bunch of "what I would do if I were a billionaire" type tweets on the TL lately  I thought about it for some time and I've decided that my personal answer is that I would build a media empire  You're already looking at the $1000/mo version of it
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2020-08-12 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1293681056906768385)
- @patriotact also check out this vid of Jason Mraz when he was a kid 😂❤️ it takes time and practice to develop deep confidence. I love seeing that people used to be nervous and shy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW0aIDr6zF4
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2019-11-26 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1199253090311884800)
- 3. Bad stuff is good actually 😂
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2019-06-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141536957006114817)
- for egs of the spirit of the thing(s) I'm looking for – this is how JK Rowling plotted Order of the Phoenix
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2019-07-28 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1155410040980791296)
- The stigma around suicide is not victimless - people who survive their suicide attempts, and their loved ones, endure all manner of unpleasantness and judgement from others. I might be naive but this seems really unnecessary and counterproductive to me
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2018-05-09 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994015419076788224)
- cracks me up every time
  (resurfaced 2× · 41 likes · 2019-01-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1079930965395308544)
- I bet this makes them want him even more for his honesty and self-awareness etc
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2022-03-06 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1500369958051606530)
- only be clever-ironic on your locked alt with your friends, where you have some degree of control over the context  on main, in public, poe's law will always take over  this was understood all the way back in 1983
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2022-05-02 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1521033417571282946)
- Everything Is A Remix permanently shifted the way I think about creativity and originality, and permanently obliterated 99% of my creative anxiety https://x.com/visakanv/status/1367075894615961600
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2021-09-10 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1436378131451957248)
- A few times now I’ve made comparisons between tyranny-over-self and totalitarianism in society, sort of as a bit, and thanks to Alice I’m now increasingly convinced this is more profoundly true than I had previously appreciated (especially the Rest Of Society part) https://x.com/visakanv/status/1289171139156045825
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2021-11-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1463232647967096832)
- I don't wanna make this about race, but there *is* a racial component to it. A book was published in 🇸🇬 just last year where a brown kid is a school villain – honestly, I'm grateful for it, because it puts into print the mysterious bog that i've been swimming against all my life
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2021-11-22 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1462864442211770368)
- being EITHER agreeable OR disagreeable limits your development, limits what you can learn, what you can know, what you can do  all the magic happens in the yin/yang collision of the two. productive, prolific, honest disagreements conducted fairly and sustainably…ish https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074043268898336769
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2021-09-23 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1440930162757947394)
- a vast circle of invisible friends  https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/63-carl-sagan-books-are-awesome/
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2020-06-17 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1273252000285655041)
- "I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about"  https://x.com/visakanv/status/995190976531521536
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2019-07-22 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153406534157660160)
- Body language Twitter, why is this (supposedly) the default "oops I did a sex scandal" facial expression?
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2017-12-21 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/943756441130647552)
- Some nerds in California (and to be clear, I love them) legitimately speak English like they’re in a poorly dubbed anime  ...and I am wondering now if the causality might run the other way around.  Is “badly” dubbed anime actually well-made to sound like nerds...? 😮🤯
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2019-04-26 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1121740331643355137)
- #NewProfilePic
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2019-06-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1144556038827364353)
- I'm actually getting quite emotional at all the people reaching out. Being a friendly nerd online means friendly nerds halfway across the planet want to hang out with you  happy tears emoji when
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2019-03-27 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110999816916492288)
- tbh this is generally good practice when criticizing anything or anyone. don't say "X sucks", say "X looks like it's trying to do Y, I feel like doing Z would help X achieve Y better".  smart people actually LIKE RECEIVING this sort of criticism because it helps them get smarter
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2019-03-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108321054546518016)
- This is a thought I had had but didn’t want to get into because I don’t have the right background. But basically yeah the only people who bring this up seem to be white people, I live in Singapore and nobody seems to bring that one up https://x.com/jolyonbt/status/1085831303541354497?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2019-01-25 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088609918100205569)
- 7. A metal gig with a lineup of metal bands entirely made up of moms  possible names:  – Hysteria - Uterus - Toxic Shock - Endometrium - Afterbirth - Amenorrhea
  (resurfaced 2× · 40 likes · 2018-05-22 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998795083297128448)
- 9. coercion (threats, shaming, etc) is dehumanizing. it makes people less lively, less imaginative, less free. trying to use coercion to achieve noble aims is almost always counter-productive, because the coercion "contaminates" the people in the process. they learn it from you
  (resurfaced 2× · 39 likes · 2020-08-19 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1295932186684616704)
- i want to believe that we are equally capable, equally perceptive, equally thoughtful, equally decisive, etc. and so it irritates me when the people i want to consider my peers fail to live up to what i think are fairly pedestrian expectations
  (resurfaced 2× · 39 likes · 2023-01-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1617760187317911552)
- “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.” – Ecclesiastes 1:9 https://x.com/visakanv/status/1327597898930941953
  (resurfaced 2× · 39 likes · 2022-09-06 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1567292951314956288)
- According to bookpalace, Roger Payne was born in 1934 and is based in the UK... and he is well known for... homoerotic work?  he seems to generally have a thing for myths and legends, here's the Trojan Horse
  (resurfaced 2× · 39 likes · 2021-12-26 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1475241458911244289)
- 2000s reference thread
  (resurfaced 2× · 39 likes · 2021-08-20 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1428706935075852291)
- this is my periodic lazy plea to the universe that I want an in-browser app that's like a cute little video game with XCOM-esque aesthetics, but I get to populate it with details of my life https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084471331414933510
  (resurfaced 2× · 39 likes · 2020-10-11 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1315290034698739713)
- feels like there's probably a very interesting thread to explore here about what Keynes thought about Newton
  (resurfaced 2× · 39 likes · 2020-06-06 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269188063168618496)
- There's a chain of cafes in Singapore (left) called "Paris Baguette Cafe", which I always laughed at because you'll surely never find "Paris Baguette Cafe" in Paris – I assumed it was a local brand  I was startled to find it in Berkeley, CA as well (right) and so I got curious
  (resurfaced 2× · 39 likes · 2019-05-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1130373049046323201)
- Groups of smoker-friends assemble themselves in very legible circles, have you ever noticed this? It’s like the opposite of being on public transport and avoiding strangers. There’s a tribal circle element to it and it’s very nice to be a part of. (warning: smoking is filthy)
  (resurfaced 2× · 39 likes · 2018-06-28 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1012185925135228928)
- I’m going to write an essay one day titled “the unbearable whiteness of ads for brown people”
  (resurfaced 2× · 39 likes · 2018-12-03 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1069698517617205248)
- It’s worth pointing out that sourcelanders are usually quite happy to see people abroad playing with their culture (except when disrespecting religion). It’s usually immigrant or native minorities who’ve experience bullying & mockery that get (understandably) worked up about this https://x.com/mrandyngo/status/991520845305597954
  (resurfaced 2× · 39 likes · 2018-05-05 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/992723962609090560)
- Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a media company that focused its efforts on reporting on the state of the media? I don’t mean like a watchdog, I mean literally journalists who report on media organizations the way other journalists report on tech companies, governments... https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014830888683692032
  (resurfaced 2× · 39 likes · 2018-07-05 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014842538518241281)
- which is incidentally also the title of a text by tolstoy, which gandhi listed as one of his top 3 influences, who in turn directly influenced MLK.  so like, this one phrase from Luke 17:21 has staggering, staggering consequences for all of mankind
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2023-01-26 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1618664685045424129)
- the whole speech I feel is a great representation of abundance mindset  IMO here he's saying "we are all benevolent kings who make excellent decisions and take great care of each other w/o need for bullshit, because we're motherfuckin' ATHENS, baby! greatest city of all time"
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2021-09-25 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1441715387826008069)
- the dynamism problem
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2023-02-12 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1624876457473511425)
- from Feynman's The Meaning Of It All lectures, 1963:  "The universe... just as mysterious, just as awe-inspiring, and just as incomplete as the poetic pictures that came before... but see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man"
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2022-12-05 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1599726809020796928)
- * a lot of what I do is to try and retroactively become "worthy" or "deserving" of that luck, by paying it forward. and yeah I know those are dangerous concepts, nobody deserves anything, life is chaos, and yet  🐉everyone deserves everything 🌀nobody deserves anything ⛵️ayy
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2022-02-12 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1492416343295291394)
- make 100 misshapen pots  (fb:greeenthumbs)
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2022-03-02 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1499061159898783747)
- This is Ken Kutaragi, known as the "father of the PlayStation", & described by some as "a Japanese Steve Jobs". Born in 1950, he was a straight-A student who grew up tinkering with electronics. He worked on many successful projects at Sony, including early LCDs & digital cameras
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2019-04-06 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114593903498285056)
- 
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2021-01-04 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1345989847425589252)
- @maybegray slightly messing with you but also knowing you + sensing where this is coming from, this has the vibe of an eagle asking for lessons on how to be a chicken
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2019-12-03 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1201958879514382336)
- zooming in... welcome to my cinematic universe, choose your own adventure
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2020-05-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1265201505725894656)
- My feeling is *my* feeling, ie not a description of objective reality  I find that I’ve been learning that most people aren’t like me, most people don’t care that much about examining the roles of flags and talismans and so on  Some of us are symbol-weavers, most are not
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2019-07-12 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149665404039487488)
- @Jeffrey_zhr @ikansumbat @twelfthgod @NTUsg they sure conveniently left out the part of the quote where he goes on to say "Race prejudice is deliberately inculcated by gradual educational indoctrination in school"
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2020-06-03 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1268125265118457856)
- 23. Id rather watch zizek/kardashian than zizek/peterson
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2019-06-20 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141545529534324736)
- yea https://t.co/d9P6zSBpiq got me checking my mail every day lol https://x.com/sharanvkaur/status/1214820728211566592
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2020-01-08 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1214820984953266176)
- So to summarize:  - I was lonely - I was dissatisfied with the idea that $$ and power would make me less lonely - artists & musicians helped me feel less lonely - I realized that it’s honesty and vulnerability that solves loneliness - I decided to be honest and vulnerable myself
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2019-11-14 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1194883605257867264)
- I remember this story vividly. He had a quote about how, without people to perform his identity to, he forgot who he was, and simply existed. That quote stuck with me ever since I read it. A sense of self is a social construct. (Journo asked for life advice: "get enough sleep") https://x.com/argobagdr/status/945754804353142784
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2017-12-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/945756189811359744)
- I believe I went to bed thinking “I’m a spider that builds elaborate webs. people call me weird for doing it, and then say I’m lucky when I catch opportunities with them.” And I woke up with - we all have different psychic webs, psycho-graphs, and they catch the world differently
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2019-09-20 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1174913071770263553)
- Vulture: You don't understand how the world works.  Spider-man: But I understand that selling weapons to criminals is wrong!  Vulture: How do you think your buddy Stark paid for that tower? Or any of his little toys?
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2019-01-18 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086308871650459648)
- I love my city tbh. I have my criticisms, but this is home. There is a substantial part of me that’s embedded and intertwined in all of this
  (resurfaced 2× · 38 likes · 2018-07-25 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022084597595533312)
- @KevinSimler you can swap "arrogant" with "hostile" or "lacking in social grace" here  (via Randy Pausch's Last Lecture)
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2020-06-13 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1271883980736827394)
- This Facebook message led to Desmond becoming my cofounder. We’ve sold thousands of t-shirts together since. Great opportunity for me
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2019-12-13 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1205376406634430464)
- @davidfactorial take baby steps at the edge of your comfort zone even "trivial" things like trying unfamiliar candy  reflect on times in your life where you were courageous, revisit and reinhabit those states  seek out other courageous people, it's contagious  encourage others as much as you can
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2021-11-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1457380964603072516)
- yea I like this comparison, this is us  probably accurate to say we are at opposite ends of the "how much sunlight do you get" spectrum
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2021-10-04 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1444973602382614528)
- it took over a decade after Fleming's discovery of penicillin for Howard Florey to develop antibiotics. And he had to scrounge for donations to do it  https://x.com/jasoncrawford/status/1183833877900484608
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2021-06-22 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1407239244028940290)
- @tjrwriting stop worrying about what you're going to call it and just help a mf out  then help 2
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2021-07-24 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1419031427815927808)
- TIL that the original context of Samuel Beckett's "fail better" quote was something more bleak and absurd and probably not at all intended to be inspirational
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2021-02-22 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1363970595189235712)
- If you want to appreciate this better I recommend watching one of the greatest movies ever made about social strategy and group dynamics: Mean Girls [2004]
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2018-12-18 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074925023335305216)
- someone complimented me on my beard earlier, which reminds me that it used to look terrible 😂 I would anxiously, absent-mindedly pluck at it all the time and it would be all scratchy and wirey. Also you can see I was feeling like shit all the time for tangential reasons
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2020-12-11 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1337483701240745984)
- While reading Masters of Doom, I was struck by the bits about the shareware ethos. About 10% of users paid $$, and/but it was more than enough. I love that. It just feels right to me, for me. If you can pitch in, you can do it and feel good about it. If you can’t, no worries
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2020-06-15 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1272596283358711808)
- here’s a glimpse of what it’s like inside my head
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2020-02-11 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1227252436034703361)
- people are more productive with 3 day weekends, this is known  https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/04/microsoft-japan-4-day-work-week-experiment-sees-productivity-jump-40percent.html
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2020-03-11 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1237788191442128896)
- a super counter-intuitive thing for me when I started my patreon is, some of my biggest and most generous patrons are people who have never said a word to me ever https://x.com/paulg/status/1093223889671475202
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2019-02-06 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093235359868059650)
- @alidcastano Developing taste is a messy, tedious and costly process. Once you *have* taste, you’re worshipped as a genius (which isn’t good either). But a child trying to develop taste is annoying for parents, annoying for teachers, annoying for everyone
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2019-02-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096257600818036739)
- Choosing love over fear is a challenging, radical act on many fronts
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2018-01-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/949550759627993088)
- 4. As an art installation - someone should make ads for a series of intermediate-step products between Fitbit and Skynet
  (resurfaced 2× · 37 likes · 2018-05-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/997153740321767424)
- This feels like a message from the universe that I should really do my “so when did people start thinking of themselves as Italian” thread https://x.com/ciubmoss/status/1424924018998751257
  (resurfaced 2× · 36 likes · 2021-08-11 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1425250183827259403)
- tangentially I know NYC doomers used to warn that NYC would be covered in horse shit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horse_manure_crisis_of_1894
  (resurfaced 2× · 36 likes · 2022-08-11 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1557611515049431040)
- y'know the kind that works in an exotic pet shop, interns at a zoo, studies marine biology, has turtles and snakes at home... I'm thinking of an episode of Modern Family... Tanya. Powerful, hot, and absolutely terrifying (to me)
  (resurfaced 2× · 36 likes · 2021-03-29 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1376463794893770762)
- the real issue, really, IMO, is that people aren't clear with themselves about what they really want.  You don't have to want what I want. (That would be boring.) You have to decide what YOU want. Otherwise it will be decided for you.  Hoping to go deep on this in @introspectvv
  (resurfaced 2× · 36 likes · 2019-02-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093558818317819904)
- @maybegray every morning I wake up and-
  (resurfaced 2× · 36 likes · 2020-12-15 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1338725572910829569)
- 18. Hendrix's obsession with practice (h/t @austen)
  (resurfaced 2× · 36 likes · 2020-10-03 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1312375935836979202)
- Sometimes people say things like, “O, we have been damned because we have turned from God, without religion we are shallow, hedonistic beasts.” And I’m like ??? have you been to a library
  (resurfaced 2× · 36 likes · 2019-10-14 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1183640269637341184)
- 23. This is a beautiful piano piece played by the late, multi-talented Reuben Kee. He made popular MUGEN characters too. He died in 2007 in a boating accident in Cambodia. He was 6 years older than me then, at 23. I can't get over how tender his playing was
  (resurfaced 2× · 36 likes · 2019-01-12 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084118970959949825)
- powerful branding
  (resurfaced 2× · 36 likes · 2018-09-22 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1043422841524301825)
- a crazy thing i'm realizing as i go through my todo lists is that the # of things I come across that have potentially high-value is larger than I can meaningfully process...  ... so I actually have to disregard high-value opportunities in order to sustain a high-value process
  (resurfaced 2× · 36 likes · 2018-10-30 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1057262839084109825)
- A torment of tweets A flourishing of favorites A ricochet of retweets A parliament of polls A gallery of GIFs A blinding of bluechecks A negation of nihilists An aardvark of absurdists A shithole of supremacists A disrepute of dudes A haggle of hoes  (Yes, I like alliteration)
  (resurfaced 2× · 36 likes · 2018-07-06 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015291929347543040)
- 9. i keep wanting to write something that's like, "on being (a millennial?) singaporean and extremely online", i have so much to say about this but fascinatingly-amusingly every time i start i quickly get exhausted. let's try a quick sketch https://x.com/visakanv/status/1767559000202063995
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2024-04-02 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1775092598727901222)
- George Bernard Shaw was born 1856 in Dublin, won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1925, having written over 60 plays.  He moved to London at 20, and struggled to establish himself, and embarked on a "rigorous process of self-education". He lived to a ripe old age of 94 https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347898171695919108
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2021-01-09 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347908393365696512)
- I saw a nerdy infographic in a group chat recently, and my first impulse was to type “bro, nerdy infographics like this make my dick rock hard”. (I didn’t post it.) I’ve been thinking about that impulse. I think it’s a sort of bawdy male cameraderie move, like a sports ass slap
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2020-05-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1264765592730349568)
- here we go (pics by @HawkeyeHuey)  people look at kids differently, are different around kids  you can extrapolate further from this idea  we are all different people around different people
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2018-09-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044534368465707008)
- sketchin' some plans
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2021-12-01 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1465990571185430531)
- This 2013 blogpost by @flooby_nooby about the cinematography in The Incredibles (2004) is something I revisit regularly  it has a way of getting me to think about how I'm framing everything in my own life and work  https://floobynooby.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-cinematography-of-incredibles-part-1.html
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2021-09-03 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1433765169990037510)
- The $1,000 for the FAN grant is basically coming from FAN readers. If I didn’t have bills to pay, I’d reinvest all the money into this. This is my top priority in life, and if it weren’t already apparent with how I spend my time, it’ll be apparent with how I spend my $
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2021-03-31 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1377289943848902663)
- Finally got myself a straight edge razor. This is a Parker SR-1
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2019-06-21 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141942876126924800)
- 1,000 ebooks sold! 🥳 🎉  and uh... v1.1 delayed to maybe February/March 2021 😅 it’ll be good tho I promise
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2020-12-26 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1342919992388378624)
- What is your favorite pre-gunpowder weapon?
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2020-05-05 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1257779769912909824)
- Hi, Singaporean here – we haven't cancelled all festivals though? The Thaipusam procession went on even though we had about 40 Covid cases on the island at the time. We simply took precautions, set up checkpoints, washed our hands more, stayed home if sick, etc https://x.com/DavidJNage/status/1233892771523682309
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2020-03-01 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1234138076638629889)
- @RonenV Basically the thing that keeps me grounded is I ask myself what depressed, disenfranchised 17yo Visa would have wanted. And he would’ve wanted the truth.
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2020-01-27 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1221918143569727488)
- I am becoming a fan of my own aesthetics 🥰🤓
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2019-05-11 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1127015502667108352)
- more naive techno-optimism  considering that zuck is someone that actually prides himself on reading, my guess is it's less "we don't believe anything bad could happen with our technology" and more "we don't care until the consequences have costs for us"  https://x.com/MikeIsaac/status/1059677825202978817
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2018-11-20 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064916981579624448)
- Suzhou Jinstar Railway Materials, founded in Feb 2004, located in Xinzhuang Industrial park (an hour's drive from Shanghai)  Total fishplate export volume can reach 96748.40kg per year, worth just shy of US$70,000/yr  (This isn't what I wanted to talk about, I was just curious)
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2018-10-06 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048500874819989504)
- I’m constantly fascinated by how many of our coming of age myths (Thor, Black Panther, Moana, Tangled, Wonder Woman...) are basically about children discovering that their adults lied to them to “protect” them https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000465800539459584?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2018-12-27 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078198287524491264)
- Elevators move almost 1B people a day. China installs 700,000 new ones a year. They allow dense urban settings with a modest environmental footprint; subways wouldn't make as much sense without them. We expect to wait less than a minute for them. They're 10x safer than escalators
  (resurfaced 2× · 35 likes · 2018-04-10 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/983643715469172736)
- @QiaochuYuan i want to dare to be excellent even if i know it'll kill me
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2023-05-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1659711544492703745)
- and to embody my own advice on advice, as always, if this stuff is not relevant to you feel free to ignore it  getting in tune with your own feelings and your own experience is more critical than anything some stranger might say to you  even if you're 'wrong' at first
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2023-03-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1638367537871069186)
- I am trying to build a 80 year memeplex to reboot the Baghdad House of Wisdom. This necessarily entails coming across as socially unhinged. I have done the math on this and the costs are acceptable to me
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2021-11-30 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1465577650081075204)
- dream appearance thread...?? https://x.com/strangestloop/status/1347181256770023427
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2021-01-07 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347181934749732866)
- whiteboarding a fresh table of contents
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2020-12-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1342146275039301632)
- Paulnack tells his students, you are not mere entertainers. You are therapists. Spiritual chiropractors, paramedics - realigning minds that are confused, hearts that are overwhelmed, souls that are weary. You are the catalyst of smiles and tears, at weddings and funerals.
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2018-05-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/999471229487624192)
- This is basically the final form of advanced reply guy methodology  To meet any person, find out what they want, and make it  If the person has a gated network, find out what their gatekeepers want, and make it  People will trip over themselves to refer you if you’re legit
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2019-06-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135470307160944640)
- I don't usually think of John Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf at the same time, but they were basically twitter mutuals. Shame you can't just search from:keynes woolf to see what their correspondences were like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsbury_Group
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2020-04-15 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1250414684215234563)
- current mood: I like I have explained enough
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2020-12-30 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1344415636189925376)
- “[...] medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." - John Keating, Dead Poets Society
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2018-05-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/999461159244709888)
- I'm curious to know the history of the design of the american trash can. ever since I saw them IRL, I keep noticing them on TV. Very distinctive, and with minor differences... it's like a "genre"
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2019-10-14 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1183770112819515392)
- Steven Spielberg, A Life in Films [2017] - by Molly Haskell
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2019-11-13 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1194535924513693696)
- I’ve been asking old friends about their memories of me and it’s been a really... something... for me to read about my life through their eyes. This was from a classmate when we were 10. Kids are so much more observant than we give them credit for
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2019-03-19 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1107823868121485312)
- certain kinds of celtic knots have similarities with certain chinese motifs  sometimes I'm tempted to give up on words and explore the universe of visual language
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2019-06-26 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1143865707806937088)
- @chongrayray It’s actually very interesting how mad Chinese Singaporeans get at experiencing racism abroad - they only get to be this mad bc they are tourists. They don’t have to face them again the next day. Minorities in their home countries don’t get to be so angry https://t.co/uw5Djr5NeN
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2019-08-06 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1158659603397148674)
- A thing outsiders might not know about Singapore is how we show off our might to our neighbours... by racing to be the first to airdrop them emergency supplies during natural disasters. 😂  We have entire warehouses and people on standby just waiting to be activated
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2019-07-13 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149978778275155968)
- I'm going to do some quick-and-dirty book threads of books that have been in my personal library for years that I don't feel like I'm ever going to read  Here's one: The Power of Light by Frank Kryza [2003]
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2019-06-30 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145330665778323458)
- how to make friends on twitter
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2018-12-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078272036860977158)
- I guess this is the point where I’m reminded that maybe I’m not neurotypical and my perspective might not actually be something most people relate to. Lol. Don’t listen to me, listen to yourself. But don’t beat yourself up. But listen to yourself. Idk man it’s your life 😂 bye
  (resurfaced 2× · 34 likes · 2018-08-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026302984894832641)
- @joodalooped @amirism_ my wife left her then-disapproving family to be with me and supported me financially when I didn’t have a job  once I got a job I told her she’d never have to work again and she hasn’t
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2023-08-11 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1690036948356972544)
- I did it! I woke up to write a thing, and i wrote it! and now I have the rest of the day to just goof off!!! yessss gonna just chill with my wife and be a blob on the sofa https://visakanv.substack.com/p/interestingness-on-demand
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2023-06-09 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1667045650264109056)
- The feeling of mental clarity I think is the most ludicrous thing. feels like i just had an excellent nap and a good coffee. but i didn’t. all i did was think out loud and face my feelings
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2021-12-25 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1474572128410214403)
- @Austen @RichardMCNgo Casually drops “I have conquered envy in my own life”, diet-coke drinkin’ bhodisattva
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2022-09-14 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1570065302280622086)
- 13. an Indian pineapple-themed restaurant called Ananya's Ananas
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2018-11-08 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1060465960736382976)
- watching the Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) and there’s this whole song - Hellfire - where the vengeful villain gets angry about being horny and wants to kill the girl for tempting him to go to hell
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2021-08-24 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1430112507482439682)
- Mill is a "the family is the cloister" eg – which I think is ~somewhat~ limits the damage  still, suicidal & depressed at 20, I wonder why 🤔  > asked himself whether the creation of a just society would actually make him happy. His heart answered "no"  https://x.com/MarkLutter/status/1448976577283428352
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2021-10-15 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1448979196840079363)
- former US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's learnings on the failures of the Vietnam war (h/t @BillSeitz)  https://t.co/VoIlQEpith
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2021-03-07 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1368419765413314563)
- MAKE SOME NOISE
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2018-10-02 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1047182160099041281)
- I introduced two fellow nerds to each other in my mentions and I cannot contain my excitement at witnessing their subsequent interactions, truly this is the great joy of my life. this is what I was put on this earth to do, to be switchboard for nerds
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2021-08-24 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1430264735576956930)
- I will make my point thus:  Visakan Veerasamy is the dumbest intellectual this part of twitter. he thinks he is so smart and cool but actually he is not. he is a fake wannabe. dont ever read his tweets. especially do NOT subscribe to his youtube channel  https://x.com/ideamarket_io/status/1429837216725884933
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2021-08-24 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1430203914473730049)
- I think all the time about how Borderlands has a gun called Conference Call  “Let’s just ping everyone all at once”
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2020-02-09 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1226355713905086465)
- You don’t *have* to keep existing. But I invite you to join us. Around the world, over the centuries, there has been a delightful network of kind nerds who have sought out each other, through books & music & art - & we have held each other. We hold the whole planet.
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2019-04-22 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1120235382241517568)
- we can make this part of twitter the most exciting part of twitter. if we do it well, we can make it the most exciting part of the internet. if we do it *truly* well, we can make it the most exciting part of the world https://x.com/visakanv/status/1372099809440595968
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2021-04-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1379760118607179778)
- @BecomingCritter each social group has some kind of proof-of-work that functions as social currency. there are no guns to shoot or cars to buy here; here you demonstrate ingroup membership by performing the social ritual of defining concepts for other people to inspect and play with
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2021-01-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1350013063013912578)
- don't make me angry... I add citations and references when I'm angry
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2020-08-04 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1290744764959084545)
- reposting the first image: insightful visuals  1. improvement vs perceived improvement  I believe it's by @marcdalessio:  https://marcdalessio.com/self-portraits-over-the-years-2/
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2020-08-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1292492604395810816)
- Damn, @chorpharn’s shot is 💯
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2019-12-26 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1210126701390221313)
- Both of these are surprisingly close to how people spell my name in emails
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2019-11-01 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1190204606359293952)
- I've been on a "take deep breaths and hold them" kick for a couple of weeks, and it has been a fascinating journey  a thing that I was wondering if I was imagining: my hips have been starting to get more sore. Now... why would breathing deeply make your hips sore?? https://x.com/visakanv/status/1219516909403533312
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2020-01-26 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1221461841131393024)
- y'know what, let's try and increase the confidence here. vagus nerve + parasympathetic nervous system + cortisol + muscle building, the learn-as-we-go nerdposting discovery thread https://x.com/visakanv/status/1230385537858461696
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2020-02-20 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1230387383570296832)
- Lol a bunch of bandits showed up at a tavern  Innkeeper says I should run  I said I haven’t finished my drink  They hassle me  I buy them all drinks, which placates them a bit  I try to chat again with them before I go  They decide to attack me for being too friendly  ..too real
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2020-01-25 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1221093993431191553)
- And so what I’m finding, in a very slow burn sort of way, is that the experience has changed me deeply. I am not just a me, I am also a we, and I am deeply compelled to find the others - wherever they may be. And knowing this... I truly feel it at a *physiological* level
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2019-06-12 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1138657584561283074)
- 1857: if cables connect the world, wars are to cease  1939: when aviation connects the world, wars are to cease  2012: if we give everyone social media, this will be good for journalism  2019: tech will empower victims but not their abusers  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042767805127389184?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2019-03-02 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101885113346875394)
- @zenpencils @Oglaf Going back to "helping people figure out what they really want to say"  I also find it very helpful to ask, "so what's the backbone here?" What's the line of action? What's the heart of the story, the lede, the most fundamental, critical thing?
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2019-01-15 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085097089548247040)
- @webdevMason @TheAnnaGat Perhaps we are all from the same @sense8 cluster
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2019-03-22 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1109160929998954497)
- 5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.  The corollary of the Law is that:  A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2019-03-09 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1104338201412427777)
- if I could redesign my news consumption with a snap of the fingers, I would reduce it by about 90%, and replace most of it with history reading. reading history is like binge-watching past seasons of current affairs and you learn a lot more a lot quicker
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2018-09-24 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044122023373336576)
- @TwiddaZaddy the cool thing about digging into the etymology of words is that you get to get more meaning out of them. every word has a history, every word has more nuance and potential than the average user realizes. to investigate words is to investigate meaning
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2019-02-03 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1092070044085993472)
- Thank you for your extensive feedback 📑 on my personal failings!😊 At Visakan Veerasamy, we take all followers very seriously. ❤️ I’ve added a support ticket & have shared it rest of the team 🙌🏾. Changes will be reflected in our quarterly roadmap 📈 for Q2 2019 🚀 stay tuned! 🔥
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2019-01-10 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083205755224809474)
- I am a big fan of Sunny Leone - not particularly of her early career or even her current work, but of how she has leveraged herself, as an *outsider*, into being beloved by hundreds of millions of people. A series of very intelligent decisions. She’s a Gaga-esque media maestro
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2018-11-20 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064850580902862849)
- Me: wow America is messed up  Dude: Obama was messed up too  Me: ooh I like this game! George Washington was messed up too  Dude: what  Me: Roosevelt put his own citizens in Internment camps  Dude: wait  Me: Nixon bombed Cambodia  Dude: no  Me: genocide & slavery!🗽  Dude: stop
  (resurfaced 2× · 33 likes · 2018-06-28 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1012166499534974976)
- essay draft tweetout thread 2:  i've been mulling on this for years, and it finally feels like it's really coming together- i've been noticing that a lot of my disparate threads and thoughts and ideas all converge on some central idea(s) about literacy. this may be my "3rd book" https://x.com/visakanv/status/1754162265702764912
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2024-02-06 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1754727256013066583)
- @weirdomoots what have yall been reading lately?  Im paused on all my books bc of newborn kiddo but ive been meaning to finish gallwey’s inner game of tennis. great stories of non-judgmental observation as a means of improving performance
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2024-01-02 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1742251194532405494)
- "Wait, Visa. Did you say... lesbian?"  yes. the queers have the biggest dicks
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2018-06-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1011848279364067329)
- was particularly gripped by the conversation geralt had with the ambassador after meeting emhyr - it has a quality that game of thrones had at its best, and lost at its worst. Might call it worldbuilding “heft” or “weight”. Arcane and AoT have it too. Depth, richness, consequence
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2022-07-29 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1552849825401425922)
- this picture won’t make sense to anyone, but it’s becoming clear to me that I’m eventually going to make a million dollars from friendly ambitious nerd. it’s a matter of time. I will be using it to fund other creatives and research for the public commons. ~10 years, maybe less
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2022-04-07 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1512046184889610243)
- @liminal_warmth @eigenrobot @Coscorrodrift this girl just posts a ton of history facts while dancing
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2021-07-03 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1411388130981146626)
- I expect to reply to 10,000+ youtube comments before I’ve “made it”
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2021-03-14 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1371050212634947586)
- 🤔 a gamer could one day - and probably in my lifetime - have more power than the pope
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2020-10-06 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1313277829363105792)
- the part of you that doesn't want to do it is typically trying to keep you safe.  i'll say it: there's a part of me that doesn't want to publish any more ebooks or content bc it feels nice and safe for me to just hang out here, guy who has released 1 book that people kinda like
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2020-11-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1326914237046906882)
- I only recently discovered that I never actually understood what hyperventilation is.  The instinctive model is something like, “you’re panicking -> breathing too fast -> (?) not enough oxygen?? -> bad??”  But the problem is closer to “exhaling too much -> not enough CO2 -> bad”
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2020-01-21 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1219516909403533312)
- @TheAnnaGat @webdevMason @DavidDeutschOxf Just three twitter nerds, from three different continents,, all in the same house... tweeting
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2019-04-29 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1122751072655642624)
- Feel like doing a Steve Vai aesthetics thread. Steve and I share the same birthday (06/06), and while I've never been a ~huge~ fan of his music personally, I admire his embodiment of his own aesthetics. At his peak (IMO), he had this interesting xeno-magick-conjurer vibe going on
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2019-08-25 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1165652892704882688)
- @c3po___________ Make the notes simple and easy to reply to.  1. Say thanks for a specific thing they did, and share specifically how it helped you  2. Offer an interesting question that’s relevant to their work, that’s specific and non-obvious  3. encourage them, wish them well
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2019-11-06 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1192054153016696833)
- a well-placed question from a place of genuine curiosity can blast through the foundations of entire worldviews, where arguments and accusations often only end up triggering defense systems (which often overreact and cause needless pain and suffering for everyone involved)
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2019-03-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108325526463082496)
- it's really interesting on retrospect to consider how rarely dystopian fiction etc prepared us for corporations acting cute https://x.com/Twitter/status/1054421823880871942
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2018-10-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1054442269732888582)
- Sounds to me like Hayek and friends were so in awe of the realization that the market-mind is bigger, smarter and more powerful than the human mind that they forgot to consider that it might also be a selfish asshole
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2018-11-15 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1062989135026184192)
- At first glance that seems a little ridiculous. I'm an introspective person. I write, I journal. I love spending time with my own thoughts. But... maybe #NotAllThoughts? Maybe I use some known set of thoughts to distract myself from some other set of thoughts? (Seems accurate)
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2017-12-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/945741979911983105)
- thought: procrastination is a sort of autoerotic asphyxiation
  (resurfaced 2× · 32 likes · 2015-10-09 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/652516642262396928)
- 3. this one is a retelling of an evergreen classic: infinite possibilities of things to do, limited capacity. how to proceed?  there are many possible strategies, including the no-strategy move of “just freestyle/improvise however and see what happens” https://x.com/visakanv/status/1754727256013066583
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2024-02-07 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1755266812600897542)
- “Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark af the very beginning of our lives. A crucial part of our story is gone, and violently, like a bomb in the womb.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2018-07-25 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022020090483621888)
- i have 1,112 notes on my iOS notes app. wonder if I can get it down to under 1,000 in an hour? 🤔
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2023-04-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1646000476746579970)
- @NLRG_ @prerationalist before/after of kid's first day at school
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2022-04-15 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1515004761115869188)
- I have friends who are passionate about the idea of like, "oh when we have hypersmart AI chatbots, we can cure loneliness"  I think this might work for maybe 5% of people, but the majority of warm-blooded mortal bodies want other warm-blooded mortal bodies to commiserate with
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2021-09-01 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1433049706389667849)
- deep cut!!  "my theory of happiness" [40mins] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ2llC5tRXY
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2021-11-06 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1456947542042636288)
- Danny has been tweeting Will & Ariel Durant's masterpiece, The Story Of Civilization (which took them 40 years to write) for almost a year now, he seems to be about 7 volumes in  truly remarkable act of Twitter scholarship https://x.com/DanielCJonas/status/1297569756686548999
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2021-07-24 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1418987931088293889)
- back before I switched to the Wooten/Miles/Govan “play by ear” school, I struggled with two problems:  1. how do I make fewer mistakes?  2. how do I make my playing less boring?  turns out the answer to both of those questions is “accept & love your mistakes, and work with them”
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2020-12-29 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1343847387211595777)
- It’s funny to me that I’m still seeing discussions about this almost 10 years later after I first heard it, and I imagine that people are going to keep riffing around it for decades more. I think the broader point is that taking advice literally is more damaging than any advice https://x.com/andrew__reed/status/1247989369241079809
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2020-04-09 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1248147801634045957)
- Interestingly, for some reason, the female actresses born in 1990 seem to all be much higher profile than the men.The women include  - Emma Watson - Jennifer Lawrence (I believe the only actor born in the 90s who has an Oscar?) - Margot Robbie - Kristen Stewart
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2019-02-15 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096441301589880837)
- a common trait I detect in a lot of guys (I'm not so sure about women) is a fear and/or aversion to taking responsibility for their own life in this way. they latch on to a GaryVee or a Jordan Peterson or a Superstar Rajini – something outside themselves to guide their decisions
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2018-10-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1054400951262429184)
- So why you, Mr. Buy My Book? Why should I prioritise you over all my friends, and all the recommendations of all my friends, and all the unread works of writers I already love, and know I would love? Why should I put your unknown book at the top of that pile? Serious question!📚
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2019-01-29 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090138083595415553)
- "I have to be diplomatic with our clients, but I don't have to be diplomatic with you bastards!" - James McKinsey, management consultant. In 1999, New Yorker described his young Ivy League hires as SWAT teams of business philosopher-kings, parachuting into companies around the 🌏
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2018-04-10 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/983658135201071104)
- rearchitecting is hard, even when you’re trying to reorganize around a simpler, better principle https://x.com/visakanv/status/983545624745267201?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2019-01-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087020829068541954)
- And at the same time, sometimes I get questions like, “Visa why do you bother so much? Why do you try so hard? Why do you care...?”  I care like hell and I don’t care at all, somehow both of these things are true, sometimes simultaneously
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2019-01-14 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084675611719696384)
- Internet hustler with 800 followers, mostly bots: sleep is for the weak!!! Hustle 24/7!!! Hustle on Christmas to get ahead!!!  LeBron James: sleeps ten hours a night
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2019-02-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093058439520038912)
- I remember being a kid, and I remember what I wanted from my adults and officials. I didn’t want them to understand my memes. I wanted them to be solidly decent people. I wanted them to be strong, smart, kind. I wanted them to tell me, “I got you. I’m listening.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2018-07-01 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1013297755014324225)
- The time has come for me to go my own way and do my own thing. But I will always remember my time here fondly. Thank you @dineshraju & @ReferralCandy for some of the best years of my life, and for making me a better version of myself. I wish you all the success in the world. ❤️
  (resurfaced 2× · 31 likes · 2018-06-29 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1012504546415816704)
- The first thing you need to recognise is that other people are people.  They have their own interests and priorities, they are already wrangling with their own commitments.  They already have books on their “to read” and “to buy” lists they’re never going to get around to!
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2019-01-29 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090137649514336256)
- oh hmmm a bunch of the status that i have is actually me being rewarded by people for attempting the weird thing and sticking with it. as mark manson elegantly put it, you have to be contrarian, right, and follow through
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2023-04-16 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1647519654536183809)
- tomorrow there’ll be more of us
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2023-03-21 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1638044781434789888)
- @simongerman600 Since it looks like nobody’s posted this yet  tea by sea, chai by land
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2019-03-15 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106496465080180742)
- nobody ever properly explained this to me when I was a kid. They said shit like “you should be honest” and “you mustn’t tell lies” but, funnily, I could tell that their heart wasn’t in it when they said it. they were parroting what they thought they ought to say
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2021-11-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1459097554893873159)
- imagine an obelisk that's covered in mirrored facets like a disco ball
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2021-08-11 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1425402443194535943)
- Along came Sheffield-based engineer Henry Bessemer, who invented the Bessemer process – blowing air through molten iron. The oxygen removes the carbon as carbon dioxide gas.  When he shared his process, other steelmakers wrote him off as a swindler. 😂😭 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_process
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2019-03-02 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101836386519330816)
- Tempted to do a a earnestly-silly port of F.A.N. into a pastafarianism-type silly-jokey religion by working thru 0 HP's Major Ingredients. Please do not read this thread if you are overly susceptible to idolatry and/or True Belief. Ask your doctor if True Belief is right for you
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2020-06-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1271064759165530112)
- Martin: woe is me i am such a terrible sinner  Johann, his superior: look dude, obsessing about what a piece of shit you are is still self-obsession. it's not about u. turn your mind to jesus. be a conduit of love, not hate
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2021-06-21 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1406906682127441927)
- i'm now kind of informally "the jewelry guy". it's kind of a step up from "the edgy t-shirt guy" – riskier moves, greater payoffs. maybe I'll start buying and selling these. I have the $$ from t-shirt profits, I have the marketing chops, a reputation, most of everything I need
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2020-07-08 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1280736675153362944)
- @RonenV "stop screaming into the void", scream the people into the void
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2021-01-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1349413368470196225)
- what are some examples of cultural institutions that come to mind? famous bookstores, comedy clubs, etc with important histories
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2020-11-06 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1324704388921741313)
- my twitter account got temp-locked because I uploaded a minute of footage from GTA Vice City, which has Michael Jackson's Billie Jean playing on the radio, and the IFPI sent Twitter a DMCA takedown notice  I actually get to see a list of all the other accounts that got DMCA'd
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2020-06-25 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1276192740292702213)
- @LeeShangLun 5. 💥queen lasers activated
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2020-04-17 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1250985470747525120)
- Here are some other similar names I made up by following the same pattern (Swahili - Arabic - Luo)  Baduru Khalid Adyebo.  Jabali Omar Lukwiya.  Shomari Syed Nyadundo.  Chandu Yusuf Wasawo.  Can you imagine any of these guys becoming POTUS?  Barack Hussein Obama DID IT!!!
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2019-10-01 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1179077881772662784)
- 18. everyone is bby
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2019-06-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141544215509254145)
- Is/Ought Problem  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2020-02-17 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1229490787445960704)
- Me and @TheAnnaGat I have decided to skip town, head south and pivot to becoming Hollywood movie stars
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2019-04-26 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1121634038110756870)
- Near the core of my personality are ideas like “you should be willing to listen to anybody, especially people who are critical, people who disagree with you” and “you shouldn’t let challenges go unanswered”. I’ve been forced to be more precise about these over the years
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2018-12-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076375924755521537)
- Apparently Bessemer was inspired by a conversation with Napoleon (!!), & the idea came to him in a solitary cab ride from Vincennes to Paris.  Alexander Holley licensed the Bessemer process for use in the US, & Andrew Carnegie invested. Carnegie then dropped steel prices by 80%
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2019-03-02 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101838403602006017)
- High status human explains thing to regular humans
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2018-11-28 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1067640918692380672)
- I was very sleepy yesterday and yet had trouble sleeping all night - and finally, when I went to sleep, a few hours later I *snapped* awake with an incredibly sharp and distinct sensation of a snake strike, like a whip crack through my entire nervous system  Extremely awake now
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2019-05-27 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1132852137895927809)
- 39. Doom [2016] being played at the highest level, on the highest difficulty. (warning: graphic violence) – this is by clockner, entire video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72S2aAxtZOs
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2019-01-21 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087360814657368064)
- a book is a set of ordered words, yes – and those words represent a series of propositions, a series of invitations – and what is said sits not just on its own, but in contrast and complement to everything else that has been said. a book is a way of seeing https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026294894627762177
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2018-10-09 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1049577526983454721)
- Really liking Social Fabric on Netflix, a documentary series about clothes. First episode is about jeans and it’s cool to see how people put so much thought and love into things - the craftsmanship, the stories, the past, the future
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2018-10-16 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052047505821593601)
- I am just a pattern in space-time doing what it can to take care of itself you know?
  (resurfaced 2× · 30 likes · 2015-01-22 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/558115703493251072)
- “Why, he’s almost human!” “If he wasn’t so big, I’d take him for an engineer!”  this is from 1939
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2022-11-20 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1594228805123551232)
- @goblinodds @ioCassie me as a kid arguing with internet strangers vs me doing my homework from school
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2023-09-04 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1698735826199531809)
- an interesting detail about the Federalist papers – it was a commercial flop initially. Hamilton got 500 copies printed, and there were hundreds of copies that were left unsold. so like maybe 100-200 people bought it initially
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2023-05-28 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1662949213381206016)
- "I think this man is suffering from memories." - about a veteran who was nearly diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia (He was flooded with sights and sounds of dying children in Vietnam when his newborn cried)
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2018-04-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981365679218503680)
- The reason he says “sophisticated networks AND GREAT USER INTERFACES” is because a power tool with a shitty user interface goes unused  Ie, improving user interface *is* tech innovation, because it makes tech *usable* https://x.com/garrytan/status/1074851043119292416?s=21 https://x.com/garrytan/status/1074851043119292416
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2020-04-27 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1254571857019154432)
- DONT_INTERRUPT_BILL.WMV
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2022-04-29 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1519878970355122176)
- i just had a vision of relationship discourse as a sort of haunted plasma beam, like an eye of sauron spotlight. if you step into it, it melts your face and scours your soul. sometimes the spotlight comes over you unbidden. many people actively seek it out as a form of self-harm
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2022-01-02 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1477507394888343553)
- step 2, new pfp and banner, i'll probably switch back in a few weeks or whatev
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2022-04-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1509790179971661824)
- I am going to be wrong 1,000,000 times
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2022-01-09 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1480159576339058688)
- 4. 400 years after that, Da Vinci is dissecting brains, and one of his goals is to FIND THE LOCATION OF THE SENSUS COMMUNIS  and ofc he never found it because Aristotle made the whole thing up lmfao  makes me wonder what parts of modern science, inquiry, etc are a house of cards
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2021-08-09 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1424627897671643136)
- you ever look at french polynesia on google maps
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2018-11-26 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066935728133701632)
- "If a dream wasn't perfectly normal, it would be the weirdest thing that ever happened to you."  Interesting. Recently I dreamt that I was living in a slightly alternate timeline – still me, but unmarried and living with my parents (common in SG/Asia) – and we had a big fight https://x.com/meekaale/status/1368177031721218049
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2021-03-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1368182300954005511)
- a friend asked me why I put in so much effort into making all these youtube videos when there are so few views per video  see the view counts on the left? then see the counts on the right? soon they will start to cross 1,000/vid. then 10,000/vid. then it'll seem "obvious"
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2020-07-20 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1285108092934352899)
- you know, I respect this
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2019-08-25 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1165496177065725953)
- now reading V.D. Allison's recollections of Wright and Fleming. Apparently George Bernard Shaw would visit the lab and they'd discuss philosophy over tea  Such relationships and connections are so underrepresented in mythologized stories of genius  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2385475/?page=2
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2021-01-09 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347898171695919108)
- IM to a friend: "So either all the smart, inspiring people around you are too stupid to distinguish between fakers and non-fakers... or you're an *incredibly* good faker, in which case you're obviously not average. Either way, your imposter syndrome is total bullshit."
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2018-09-28 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1045701939030179840)
- Thought that arises: "the central challenge of adulthood for me has been really all about energy management". That's my bottleneck it seems
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2017-05-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/866492381452935168)
- "these hoes ain't local" - @jokowi  https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/11/06/no-more-foreign-hoes-jokowi-says.html
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2019-11-07 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1192279113861484550)
- For some reason I always assumed that there were 2 Warner brothers, maybe 3. Turns out there were 4 of them: Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack. The 3 older brothers emigrated with their parents to Canada from Poland, and Jack was born there
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2019-08-29 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1167127766841487361)
- hearing about the latest macbook problems makes me really glad I refused to buy it. I can't explain why exactly; something about it really rubbed me the wrong way. I legit went all over Singapore to find a shop that still had a mid-2015 MBP for sale in 2018, and bought it. v glad
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2019-03-29 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1111677954466025474)
- I saved this bit from Modern Family a couple of days ago. Guys taking care of each other doesn’t have to be done in a “feminine” or “emasculating” way (the silly aversion to that is a whole ‘nother can of worms, but let’s take this one level at a time for the Super Tough Guys)
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2019-01-15 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085152801796182017)
- Isn’t it funny how other people’s sounds can be comforting? Eg your spouse sneezing in another room, or your colleagues laughing down the hall. The funny part is that your sounds probably do the same for them, but you don’t really know what you sound like (unless recorded)
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2018-05-19 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/997701132783775745)
- Been thinking a lot lately about physical spaces. When I watch shows on Netflix, I pause them to look at the interior design. Every place is a manifestation of the people within it. What are the objects around you, how are they arranged, what do they say to you about who you are
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2018-07-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1019113118331359235)
- do you ever think about the word "set"
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2018-05-14 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/995901047573856258)
- The more important question though (my boss is the one who taught me to think this) is... what will 30y.o. me wish I were doing now?
  (resurfaced 2× · 29 likes · 2014-02-26 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/438648190716227584)
- 8. an essay I was thinking about working on last night might be titled “narrative cycles” or “discourse cycles”. I’m currently too sick to do anything (seems to be a non-covid regular flu lol) so I’ll just connect some dots and do some tweets maybe. This won’t make sense much https://x.com/visakanv/status/1761416448512303139
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2024-03-12 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1767559000202063995)
- Dorothy Parker with some of her reply guys in NYC: Art, Harpo, Charles and Alexander. They gathered initially as a part of a practical joke, and they ended up meeting for lunch every day throughout the 1920s to gossip, shitpost and collaborate creatively https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin_Round_Table
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2020-04-15 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1250427756002701312)
- @dineshraju @joodaloop @PradyuPrasad @RichDecibels @krishnanrohit found it. NPR 2015. Stuck with me bc it’d kind of haunting and felt very real
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2022-07-23 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1550838586781487104)
- Also this rabbithole got me to rediscover Steve Jobs' 2010 "Thoughts on Flash" – I remember vaguely hearing about this drama (I didn't use any Apple products at the time so I didn't care)  Steve was such a skilful communicator  https://t.co/cXlyatfvHz
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2020-02-27 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1232941884244295680)
- I’m not one to go clubbing and yet I feel this at a spiritual level  (ig: fuckyeahnoms)
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2022-04-04 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1510989371347927041)
- once upon a time I thought that a dark and gritty version of all the popular stuff from my childhood would be cool as heck, but somehow it has been transmogrified into the stalest cookie-cutter shit yet. we've overdone it. I'm sick of the pink and purple neons. pls stop
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2018-11-14 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1062752206900781057)
- there's a saying that's like, "people will forget what you said, but they'll never forget how you made them feel"? that's the secret of memory. it's feelings.  "months later i have to find that same emotion that i felt when i was inspired"  https://x.com/david_perell/status/1462219480327761925
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2022-07-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1551967654659104769)
- THREADING IS GOOD REPLY GAME FOR NOTES  OH MY GOD  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1077735976468832256
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2022-01-12 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1481294314424647680)
- eve ensler, who wrote the vagina monologues, said, and i paraphrase: when you give the world what you were most aching to receive, then you will know true healing
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2021-12-07 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1468307317162532870)
- @Aizazadi_ I’m quite serious in that the game provides a low-stakes context for practicing and learning the fundamentals, and also a lot of supportive emotional scaffolding via the story elements. A person who has completed Hades is easier for me to talk to about Do 100 Thing more broadly
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2021-10-13 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1448232985522704390)
- Normally, when steel is exposed to air + water, the iron on the surface reacts to form iron(III) oxide – rust. But with chromium? “Like some hugely polite guest, it reacts with the oxygen before the host iron atoms can.” Chromium oxide is transparent, non-flaky, self-healing
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2019-03-02 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101846361337524226)
- @RomeoStevens76 respect each other’s autonomy, communicate clearly and honestly, be supportive and kind. that covers most of it
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2021-07-13 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1414777024422432772)
- So for me, socialising is part of a long game of building, brick by brick, a place I can call home. There are push and pull elements. It would be nice to be surrounded by cool people. But I don’t know if that’s enough to motivate me? Lots of things would be nice, after all
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2018-10-05 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048025475908423680)
- the secret ingredient is trauma
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2020-09-19 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1307413215526092801)
- Luck is of course always a variable, but you also have to show up every day for years and years to get lucky. You can’t win the lottery if you don’t buy a ticket. You have to build a web to catch luck, you have to go on long, meandering walks to stumble onto luck. It takes work
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2020-01-28 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1222286307847626752)
- This is why you might as well distort your own ideas https://x.com/esyudkowsky/status/1075806939324403712
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2020-01-05 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1213711496670142464)
- As a status-obsessed person in the modern world, I am delighted to see that Eugene has dropped a monster essay on the topic. My first scan confirms that it is extemely legit https://x.com/kevinakwok/status/1100534441376706563
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2019-02-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1100668578741645313)
- DG: The problem with this “we used to barter, and it was hard, so we invented money, then came banking and credit” story, as ubiquitous as it is...  ... is that there’s no evidence for it, and lots of evidence suggested that it did not.
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2018-11-22 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065627629217230848)
- "Imagine you live in a country in which everyone is one of two things: a Catholic or a Hindu. Isn't it hard enough to free a man's mind from the insidious grip of Rome? Must he accept Kali, Krishna & Ganesha at the same time?"  This is how I feel about USA's left vs right tbh
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2018-03-24 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/977589285330214912)
- Over time you start looking for simple true/false statements that you can then attempt to verify:  - melanin is a variable that affects skin color  - stratum lucidum is an additional layer of skin on palms and soles  You want to disentangle the chain of causes and effects
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2018-11-06 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1059605107963088897)
- Spielberg does this incredibly well: he shows you a scene, typically between two actors, and then he subtly reveals another POV, usually via a third actor. It’s this elegant, smooth way of transitioning, and it feels very organic. Your attention is drawn naturally. Film genius
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2018-08-30 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035087529806942209)
- Lifehack: realize that life is meant to be lived, not hacked. Thanks for coming to my sermon, you can donate to help build the Church Of Fuck You at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/visakanv
  (resurfaced 2× · 28 likes · 2018-05-25 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/999844185543852033)
- @TylerAlterman Balzac’s Lost Illusions gave me a really great model for thinking about the social environment of a creative trying to make it, and all the competing incentives and bad actors and so on. It felt like putting on a pair of spectacles and seeing social reality more clearly
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2024-01-29 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1752067940512657728)
- 11. big puzzle on my mind these last 2 years is trying to really understand how to think and work episodically. at this point i may have spent more time just sitting around thinking about how to do an essay series, than i spent actually writing a book https://x.com/visakanv/status/1779948175476068536
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2024-05-07 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1787878031446393343)
- I found borderlands 3 UI a significant downgrade from BL2's. WAY too much screen real estate wasted on displaying the player character when we're trying to sort and study our guns. This is an absolutely inexcusable failure for a looter-shooter game im sorry
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2020-12-19 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1340193172656308224)
- I like how Saruman’s staff resembles his tower
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2020-12-04 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1334832974735372289)
- during his lifetime he was "admired more as a statesman than an author", and people thought he was a self-indulgent digresser  at age 38 he went into isolation for almost 10 years to get his writing done
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2021-01-07 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347152124883263494)
- none of this is to be in denial of cruelty, injustice, selfishness, hate, bigotry, etc  but the struggle against these larger forces is infinite, and you cannot do much if you are swept up in despair  love, joy, kinship, gratitude, grace — these are the tools of resistance
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2021-05-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1389495729459130371)
- @LauraDeming "shit's fucked ya'll, even this statement" – ludwig
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2021-11-16 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1460684948558389251)
- Deutsch begins with a cheery walkthrough of scientific and philosophical progress. He carefully points out that knowledge consists of good explanations, which are derived from conjecture + criticism. It’s very pleasing how he confidently calls out various errors & misconceptions
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2020-03-12 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1238148188084645889)
- Learnable programming (it's interesting even if you're not a programmer – I'm not. It's really about communicating in a way that people can understand) https://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2018-12-31 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1079692120334594048)
- MacOS Gasolina:
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2021-06-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1409562092382822401)
- 2. Happy New Year! Manchester, December 31st 2015
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2020-08-31 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1300342778648391680)
- There are dozens of Visas in the world that none of us know about. My job is to find them
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2019-06-12 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1138658579425054720)
- It’s interesting to me that the focus often tends to be “this advice is bad” rather than “if you can’t tell that this advice, like all advice, is tremendously context-dependent, then you’re going to have a bad time”
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2020-04-09 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1248148387041427458)
- try on 100 political ideologies https://x.com/bashfulfred/status/1270066491598266370
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2020-06-09 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1270299653393661952)
- I don’t use FB much anymore but I love this trend where people make groups that you can @ in response to someone - and in so doing, build communities of solidarity and support. It’s the Facebook equivalent of the quote tweet. It’s so smart!! Hypertext is magic in the right hands https://x.com/jujuionthebeat/status/1192119553154674689
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2019-11-06 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1192151461179691008)
- current mood again. tired of making words. word-doing so tedious and still somehow always wrong https://x.com/visakanv/status/1205307098440949760
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2020-02-20 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1230527138517803008)
- "When Leonardo arrived, Verrocchio's workshop wss creating an ornate tomb for the Medici, [...] and generating Madonna paintings for merchants who wanted to display both their wealth and their piety." 😂
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2018-04-13 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/984758473131868160)
- @tentaclelesbian @starsandrobots friends I'd hit up in Seattle:  @ajboomer4 @andrwmrtn @novelistparty @thicchutney @Aryeh___ @eigenrobot @selentelechia @blackdelia @ae_fernandes @jambarree @apatelthompson @jenny_pollack @_loveallthis @abbyfuller @sonialexandra @uberstuber @beaugunderson
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2020-01-05 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1213918363883171840)
- When I was a teenager I used to hang out with Levan, a fellow musician who’s albino. I was really close to him (we’re still friends, just not in the same scene) - and I think what I really loved about him is that he was even more alien than I was, and extremely cool about it
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2019-01-17 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085801241874128896)
- idk why it's so hard to find really good visuals/images of Jesus as a rockstar  nobody has really, deeply explored this idea aesthetically, which I think is unfortunate  pic on the left is ehhhh kiiinda something-something  pick on the right is an eg of how to do it wrong
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2019-07-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1148605645706473473)
- That seems kinda ridiculously expensive (S$23 is US$17)  Multiple pricing tricks here:  - scarcity (limited time only) - novelty (NEW) - trendiness (“sea salt”) - brand (Famous Amos, can’t go wrong) - anchoring ($23 is compared against $65) - need-matching (“perfect gift”)
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2019-06-21 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142006848532336641)
- I need a whole buddy cop movie starring Ruby Rose and Deepika Padukone
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2018-12-14 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073624485956222976)
- Breakfast time! This is Huevos Rancheros
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2019-04-27 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1122183544015474688)
- Places and spaces thread - architecture, cities, streets, buildings...
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2019-03-13 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1105753989772075008)
- ISIS GROUP CHAT  YUSEF: habibis did you see the news  AHMED: GOT season 8 😻  YUSEF: the infidels are fighting each other again  FAYSAL: praise to allah!  YUSEF: you lazy dogs  YUSEF: how can we destroy America if they do it 1st  AHMED: how can Dany bear fighting Viserion, Yusef
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2019-01-23 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087947139865591809)
- @infiniturtle @backus i am pretty comfortable with the idea that i don't really have a ME who is REALLY Behind The Mask. I am just a mix, an assemblage, sometimes more this, sometimes more that, depending on context, time of day, mental state, who i'm with, what i've been up to recently...
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2019-01-21 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087420081737355264)
- It’s interesting how the Dutch and the Portuguese were at some point imperial, colonizing countries around the world, and then they sorta faded out(?). They’re like the Friendster and MySpace of colonialism
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2018-08-07 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026705287728660480)
- @Tipsycaek @sonyaellenmann Did that sadness "enrich my life"? No, not really. It kept me from functioning. could I have "done without it"? I'm not sure if that's an option. it's clearer now that the misery was a manifestation of who I was, where I was, how I was. I don't see how it could've been different
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2018-06-27 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1011855022273859584)
- mood
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2018-09-24 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044144589274140672)
- "Minimize negative variance, maximize positive variance". Many of us are conditioned to fight fires in our everyday life, making sure things don't blow up. But once we prevent the catastrophies, we tend to move on to the minor inconveniences - when we shd focus on delight
  (resurfaced 2× · 27 likes · 2017-12-25 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/945176389132591104)
- new essay https://visakanv.substack.com/p/the-tavern-and-the-temple
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2023-07-27 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1684378961386799105)
- "Simon Bolívar fought 472 battles, of which 79 were important ones, and during his campaigns rode on horseback 123,000 kilometers, which is 10 times more than Hannibal, three times more than Napoleon, and twice as much as Alexander the Great."
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2020-05-22 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1263838802738466823)
- not much has changed in 500 years
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2021-06-21 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1406904400690388997)
- oh i forgot about typology central, i was a huge mbti nerd. hundreds of posts like this  i love stumbling upon this sort of thing because you can both see “thats clearly visa” and “huh, his writing was jankier then”  takes a million words to be less janky
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2023-06-27 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1673829469478608898)
- @jordandrsn I did consider this but decided that I feel better letting people know what I deal with, vs keeping it to myself
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2021-08-10 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1425192328591904770)
- This is a great example. Butterscotch Horseman is using his son as an outlet for his anger and frustration. Grumpy old resentful men are the worst. Nothing is ever their fault, they don't have to be responsible for anything, everyone else is conspiring to screw them over
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2019-01-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085082310834249728)
- when newton had his own nervous breakdown he accused john locke of trying to set him up with women  I like to think that under newton's sexual orientation he probably put "natural philosophy"
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2021-03-21 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1373608532294037506)
- (h/t @souvlakis)  https://x.com/kanyewest/status/1034102337386700800
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2021-07-24 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1418936064694099968)
- 43. "what if I can't do it?"  "try your best."  "what if my best isn't good enough?"  "it's good enough for me."
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2019-01-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088030630846160896)
- @Klockwerklime @bahstgwamt @AdmiralOPG @QiaochuYuan @chaosprime @vinayaki_ @nuanceexists @selentelechia Check this out imma improv DJ it right now. Would be extra cool to play it on different phones around a room or something
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2020-06-07 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269481411011997696)
- 009: The War of Art. If you do anything creative at all, I highly recommend this. Short and easy read, yet somehow lots of powerful points from someone who truly knows and lives the creative's struggle. Bound to find a burning truth that you're overlooking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYtjAY0IZe0&feature=youtu.be
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2020-01-23 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1220442504954335232)
- Tallboi problems
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2018-10-12 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1050736872245231616)
- Leaning on my musician’s background: if you want to sell out stadiums, 99% of the time, 1st you have to sell out bars. (I guess in 2019 first you need a hit YouTube video 😂. Then another.) There are some exceptions, but those tend to crash &burn from a lack of sound fundamentals
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2019-02-09 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094373209254780928)
- some people (a) think I'm too open & inviting towards deplorable characters  some people (b) think I'm a snowflake overly coddled in my protected safe space  (a) and (b) often hate each other, but we do have one thing in common: we can all agree @visakanv is a dumbass
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2019-06-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1144153479297900544)
- "Kali is often portrayed standing or dancing on her consort, the Hindu god Shiva, who lies calm and prostrate beneath her."  any guesses as to what's missing from these pictures, that used to be a feature of older depictions?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2019-09-09 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1171011864328753152)
- 2 defining songs of "my generation" are  Dancing On My Own ("I'm in the corner, watching you kiss her, oh oh oh")  & Mr. Brightside ("I just can't look, it's killing me")  Both are about people watching other people being intimate  No previous generation saw so *much* of this
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2019-06-04 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135804862661242880)
- Today's curiosity: dafuq are lymph nodes? what does lymphatic system do?  seems like it performs a support role to the cardiovascular and immune systems  "It is estimated that without lymphatic flow, the average resting person would die within 24 hours"  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymph
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2019-06-09 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1137647152669241344)
- soooo ok. what can we do? what are the solutions?  realistically, what I'm really looking for + trying to do here is to just persuade a handful of dudes to make a bit more of an effort to look out for each other. to help younger dudes in turn with their fears and insecurities
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2019-06-03 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135634001689960448)
- This is a useful word to use when thinking about “what is the right thing to do” in social contexts. It’s obviously not objective, but never completely subjective either. It depends on the context, ie it’s intersubjective https://x.com/devonzuegel/status/1063823597075144704
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2018-11-20 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064738770392498176)
- ... although some persons veil themselves so assiduously that they make their performance “believable even to themselves”, conflating their role and their person.  [Some of us choose to identify as our masks and roles entirely, and some don’t even recognise that this is a choice]
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2018-07-04 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014468637225127936)
- 😘
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2019-05-13 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1127860503940718593)
- The kale is evolving
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2019-03-25 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110172697743351808)
- there is a lot of truth in the simple statement "life is a journey"  every piece of content, every product, every book, seminar, article  can often be simplified to "get person X from point A to point B"
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2019-01-15 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085093260203220992)
- I’m really enjoying Horizon Zero Dawn so far. It cleverly remixes a lot of the best aspects from a great set of other games - Uncharted, Arkham Asylum, shades of Dragon Age and Elder Scrolls too - and even Mass Effect. The worldbuilding is particularly fantastic and feels novel
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2018-05-02 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/991518643384074240)
- When I was a child and first learned about the size and scope of the universe, I thought it would be lovely if everyone else could learn about it too. The replies to this are like hundreds of gut punches to that naive, innocent kid https://x.com/amazlngnature/status/1009167169643376640?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2018-08-16 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1029913648313950208)
- Cont: When I think out loud on Twitter, there are often people eager to tell me what I’m trying to say, or what my point is. It’s especially funny when even I don’t know what I think, & I don’t have any destination in mind. It’s some sort of weird, absurdist one-way Pictionary
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2018-07-15 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1018373226018160640)
- My country is pretty cool
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2018-10-05 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048062117239119873)
- Probably the best photo of my cats this year, taken by my wife. They were hiding in the closet because of a scary thunderstorm
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2017-12-05 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/937904156311875584)
- Actually, serious question, why does anybody give a shit about The New York Times
  (resurfaced 2× · 26 likes · 2018-08-05 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026020872883032065)
- a comedian leading a country in a time of war, pretty far-fetched  reality tv host as POTUS, pretty far-fetched  but we don't even have to talk about modern times  the bronze age itself was pretty far-fetched  how did those mfs get their tin? they had to fetch it from afar
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2022-03-08 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1501089362326343682)
- storytelling heft: surprisingly textured characters as a foot in the door into people’s hearts
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2023-11-08 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1722178374859452428)
- I think one of the central-ish tenets of my life is that Morpheus was basically right - but the kicker is, there’s no point being a dick (or a pretentious wanker) about it. You have to see the humor in it, laugh and be kind - even as you go up against cruelty & injustice
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2019-04-03 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113502472801124352)
- something clicked for me when, in the middle of writing my current (2nd) book, which is about cultivating a healthy relationship with oneself, I found myself writing a book-within-the-book, about the body
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2021-08-22 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1429542672373456898)
- Afterwards met @utotranslucence and friends for Burmese food and lovely conversation long into the night 🤓 my heart is so full from the love and kindness of internet friends every day, I almost can’t bear it. ❤️  Also yes,, we were tweeting 😂
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2019-05-05 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1124945648405450753)
- I have /u/lawstudent2 saved in my notes, this guy is like the @patio11 of law on reddit  people who think and talk clearly are so precious in this world  https://t.co/XKqbjOecxu
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2019-09-23 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1176076447019962368)
- @schlagetown Brooklyn friends:  @jtaylorhodge @carolynz @simpolism @cheriehu42 @mcgrrrath @reckoner165 @spacecrone @cm @mrejfox @Sajma @itsbdell @carlfranzen @yulitmiller @dougvance @BeDobry @walkerdavide @peterkang34 @thatwitchanna @StephMakesFaces @vbhvsgr @shirarbira @alexqin @jeffweisbein
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2020-01-08 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1214763325361254400)
- 55. I like receiving DMs. It’s totally cool to reach out to people you’re following - just put in some effort to think about what it’s like for someone to receive your message, and how you want them to respond. Make them feel comfortable. Keep it short and breezy. Blogpost soon
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2019-11-24 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1198558689415684096)
- today's curiosity: breathing. how exactly do the alveoli in the lungs exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide?  https://roamresearch.com/#/app/visakanv-public/page/ymRBmc27r
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2020-07-13 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1282676527297998849)
- Today's personal is tomorrow's political, next week's fashionable, next month's profitable, next year's passé https://x.com/vgr/status/769377298332004356
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2016-08-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/769505267146825728)
- @gypsy_panther Jayen Varma, who uses a tabla technique on the bass to create something incredibly metal
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2019-01-31 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091021151726272512)
- About 3+ months left before I have to cut it 😢
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2019-04-19 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1119147355716984833)
- you know what's a trope that gets me good  like, in School of Rock – Dewey, after trying to challenge and inspire the kids, gives up and decides that he's a loser  but the kids decide otherwise  this is one of the best feelings in the world. and you can incubate it
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2019-09-21 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1175298896198684674)
- narratives  used to think we should be very careful not to get sucked into them and to think in them  I now think that, since it’s effectively unavoidable, we should get good at thinking in them, experiment with lots of them. Just also carry the meta-awareness about their nature
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2018-09-01 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035709713613082624)
- @AndruC I am taller than almost everyone in SF except @backus
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2019-05-15 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1128507161871446017)
- I want to write a blogpost about games and meta-games, inspired by that last post I retweeted. But I'm feeling sleepy, so let's try tweeting
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2016-04-26 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/724975305098567681)
- One of the things you just take for granted about being born and raised in Singapore - you just assume that people of different cultures, religions etc can get along. Eg here’s a street market with Muslim fashion right next to Buddha statues and Chinese pottery
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2019-01-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088812175760805888)
- It *was* frustrating and upsetting that there was a scene literally devoted to “OMG scary Indian guards”. That was so unnecessary. And of course the only other scene with dudes that look like me has them opening car doors. I’d rather not be represented at all than like this
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2018-09-05 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1037322588240789504)
- The swastika has been on a hell of a journey
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2018-12-14 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073483254315900928)
- I've been nibbling on a thought for a while – families are the hardest thing to talk about openly/publicly, and so they're the most powerful thing to talk about via storytelling. stories about cars (Fast8), drugs (Breaking Bad), anything – all end up really being about family
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2018-08-17 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1030362035735818241)
- I think I’m particularly sympathetic to this idea that weirdo outcasts can grow and develop to become valuable community leaders by virtue of their outsider status
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2018-05-04 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/992501650878156802)
- @michael_nielsen https://t.co/tmhgpMEzeY everything in the #bestof category is something I've revisited multiple times
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2018-02-26 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/968032700517957633)
- Story: espionage agent gets govt official drunk to try to get intel on shady arms deal, ends up listening to him cry about his father
  (resurfaced 2× · 25 likes · 2017-03-18 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/842991908972453888)
- there’s a precious space between “megacorp marketing promises heaven on earth” and “deranged schizoposter reminds us we are in hell”. it’s the space we actually live in, as far as I can tell, so it’s kinda funny how little we talk about it properly
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2022-02-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1494888413979312129)
- @economeager see also: Hokusai  (incidentally, Monet was a Hokusai fan and had dozens of his prints!)  🌊
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2022-09-30 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1575796416156291072)
- @mengwong This is not staged
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2022-01-26 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1486262513159532544)
- Remember last year when the Notre Dame cathedral was on fire?  Just kidding, that was just 4 months ago. 135 days, to be precise.  that same amount of time from now, it’ll be the year 2020.  Time is wild
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2019-08-28 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1166629810665328647)
- on the subject of dreams, I once had a really epic dream that I swear felt like it lasted *years*. It was me and a group of other bass players on some sort of epic cross-country voyage/quest in some alternate universe. Some guy died and we had to send his guitar to his family
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2019-11-01 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1190338589717958657)
- haters are the most obsessive fans
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2020-12-29 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1343815758900445185)
- (Which, if you think about it, basically implies that “allowing” children to become celebrities is pretty heinous. It’s probably just as bad as, if not worse in some ways, than giving drugs to babies.)
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2018-10-07 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048778552634572800)
- once I got good at doing this, magic started to happen  slowly, over the years, I'd start to identify the brightest nodes in my mind-graph  each time I connected those nodes directly together, it would set off a chain reaction, which would illuminate the whole graph, and beyond
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2020-04-26 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1254454603531186176)
- 51. Tim and Taisia  - strength goals - tenderness goals - ... grip strength goals
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2019-01-23 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088050039539167232)
- it is natural to squat https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142009018665164800?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2019-06-21 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142009134700589056)
- I think even just a couple of years ago I would've (privately) thought something like "?? who needs that? that's so weak. you need a safe, controlled space to validate your feelings??"  now I'm like, yes, it's like an oxygen chamber for high performance athletes
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2019-09-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1175293480421056514)
- There's also a Game of War ad with Mariah Carey, which is pretty funny. I'd love to hear from people who worked on these ads
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2019-03-21 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108665593203294208)
- The more Bollywood I watch, the more astounded I am at the sheer range and versatility of the actors and actresses. Everybody has to be able to dance. I think SRK has had more roles than Johnny Sins
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2018-12-08 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071395062913806336)
- One of the interesting things about being sick is the fever waves. You know what I’m talking about? The alternating fevers and chills, probably meant to incinerate the germs? I imagine the sirens going off in my body and the furnace workers running and yelling in Russian
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2018-08-13 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1029026101555683328)
- #nowreading Zero To One, Peter Thiel
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2018-04-26 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/989430360109797376)
- The r/nship between "talking about thing" and "doing thing" can be counter-intuitive or misleading. There's a sort of systematic illusion
  (resurfaced 2× · 24 likes · 2016-03-24 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/712967735873896450)
- the lesson I am trying to learn is that you can’t look at heroes 3 and then think “I could never make that”. You gotta look at heroes 1
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2024-08-12 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1822859359925539290)
- Karl Popper’s dad had over 12,000 books. He inherited them.
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2021-11-12 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1459111026994003971)
- was just looking up joe rogan's history recently. fear factor was a nice big break for him. how did he get that? well, first he did a bunch of standup comedy, which helped him get some tv experience. ever heard of this tv show? he also hung around ufc so much they gave him a mic
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2022-07-27 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1552303734965026816)
- when i was a kid i was like, damn why is the wizard such a glass cannon, he does so much damage with his magic missiles, if only he didn't crumple upon taking 5 dmg  but now i realize, it also works the other way around, the flimsy boi only learned to do much dmg bc he's flimsy
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2022-03-11 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1502239815513030661)
- “The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2011-12-13 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/146574871512616960)
- conversation my older sister's friend abt being open, relaxed, uninhibited: She thought of it as something straightforward. She came from a warm, loving family and her mind was full of warm, loving thoughts. I appreciated where she was coming from. Being uninhibited is goals. BUT
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2018-10-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1054396409309356032)
- 17. Nightwish's Phantom of the Opera. I kinda have a man crush on the keyboardist
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2019-01-12 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084105687347544064)
- Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer."
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2014-08-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/504431350032904193)
- 3. THE GAME OF FRAMES  - everything you can think of is necessarily framed in some way - how to experiment with frames - examples of great frames - usefulness of constraints  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074030700158828544
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2020-03-07 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1236125799943565313)
- My self-taught breathwork is naturally pulling me into becoming a self-taught junkyard yogi
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2020-01-28 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1222056806064640000)
- 17. more RK: "Doors of Expression"
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2018-12-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071747142312697856)
- 11. my mum has my life all figured out
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2019-01-23 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088103233128587264)
- Like, unless she specifically says “this is my Shinto practice”, you should generally assume that she’s just... being her. This is like me having a cup of tea and someone going “wow,, is that your culture” - sometimes it’s just a cup of tea, Susan
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2019-01-25 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088611650402279424)
- Check out this cute lil guitar amp my wife bought for me
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2019-08-11 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1160418690501734400)
- A relatively easy way to both be happy (superficially, at least) and never piss anybody off is to keep yourself to a small group of homogenous friends. I *have* been tempted to do this! It’s my psychological retirement fantasy: move to Thailand and become a diving instructor
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2018-10-07 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048781376374300673)
- Bandung with @RyanAdnin earlier: the nature of outsourcing and consulting work, what domain specialists miss, bird’s eye views, southeast asian geopolitics, national identity and the coming changes, being honest with yourself, confronting legacy issues from childhood, death goals
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2018-07-06 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015260767086567424)
- 16. Laphroaig, whiskey
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2019-02-11 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094981042560065536)
- I bought/downloaded Need For Speed: Rivals recently hoping to get to drive a car  It is *ridiculous* how much bullshit that game puts you through before letting you drive a damn car  Like, no kidding, I think ten minutes into starting the game I still wasn’t driving a car  😐
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2019-03-23 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1109550248119033856)
- specifically, it is capitalist theater, performed to signal moral worth  (minor exceptions can be made for the wealthy, on a case-by-case basis)
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2018-12-17 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074600212776112128)
- 42. Whoa, here's a 24.9 billion pixel panoramic view of Shanghai, China – you can zoom in and see everything. There's something surreal about this. It feels un-human https://t.co/5ugnEACmrn
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2018-12-19 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075317542585954304)
- The United Fruit Company was cosy with Guatemalan dictator Ubico. He let them own the best farmland, cheap. The Guatemalans overthrew Ubico. UFC didn't like this; got a PR agency to smear the popular leader as a dangerous communist. CIA got involved, ousted him. Banana republic.
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2018-04-10 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/983550489022230530)
- if I were forced to make an estimate, I think I’m about 20% of the way through towards my “creative final form” (which is itself a state of flux, blah blah). I’m firing on 2 out of 10 cylinders and am about to unlock the 3rd.  the first is the hardest
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2018-09-14 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1040461420142374912)
- Discussing traumatic memories with friends is always such a mindfuck. Many discover that they suppress these memories and come up with some sort of cover story - and most of us describe ourselves as “chill” or “cool” - on retrospect obviously a coping mechanism
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2018-07-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1021303003041574912)
- This is my extreme sport https://x.com/brandonwardell/status/1034330289659510784
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2018-08-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1034354124140163073)
- Horrible story about an abusive, selfish, jealous asshole of a professor who sabotaged his student's career. She was too scared, guilty, pessimistic to fight back, even though it was absolutely not her fault. This is so hideous
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2018-04-11 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/983923082652893185)
- Tinder, but for broken friendships. Every mth(?) if both swipe Yes, you reconcile. If either swipes no, the infinite void b/wn u persists.
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2014-10-10 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/520596639380041728)
- You = a meatbag, padding a bone jail, housing a flesh computer that interprets stimuli & hallucinates visions which you interpret as reality
  (resurfaced 2× · 23 likes · 2017-07-16 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/886549108823007232)
- the shaman is the synthesizer of both the deathly serious and absolutely irreverent. what separates him from an unhinged quack is, there's a method to his madness. it's the sensitivity and perceptiveness to the needs of the... client (why am I like this) that makes the difference
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2021-10-19 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1450275288080732161)
- Aldus Manutius (c1450–1515), teacher, scholar, founder of the Aldine press, Inventor of Italics, publisher of new copies of Plato, Aristotle, a friend to all books and libraries until the end of time
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2022-01-13 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1481551938772938755)
- “Ok Visa, we get it, you believe that you’re different, and you’ve spent a lot of time and energy over the years questioning it... taught yourself to be charismatic so that people will believe you... We believe you! Preaching to the choir here! But different how?”  Err,,, hm. Uh
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2019-09-20 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1174919581455937537)
- The book opens with a story of Mark having been stabbed by a robber on a train platform in London. A 13cm stab wound from a steel razor blade wrapped in tape – this was the birth of his obsession with materials! Wow https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101484280323231746
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2019-03-02 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101763524928331776)
- other people: go to therapist  me: befriend a pregnant moon on twitter who says the right sets of words to crack open my heart and make me cry-laugh into healing
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2021-02-18 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1362197103561220096)
- more  still can't believe there was a singaporean indian runway model that I've never heard of  I wonder how many other cool people from here are out there that I don't know about
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2020-01-04 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1213464070755500034)
- Jan 2021:  - finished publishing 100 YouTube videos - hosted Aesthetics ii salon with Arden - completed watching Legend of Korra - rewatched The Matrix - reading The Fifth Discipline - started meeting friends IRL again more deliberately - regular 🎸 practice - QT nerd threads
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2021-01-31 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1355946080962105344)
- also the way things are shaping up, I'm going to be releasing a new ebook every 3 months  INTROSPECT: June 1 2020 OPTICS: Sept 1 2020 HIGH VOLTAGE LIVING: Dec 25 2020  https://visakanv.gumroad.com/
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2020-03-19 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1240608876547821570)
- anyway,,, don't take me seriously. take yourself seriously. except when you shouldn't,,, it's all nonsense anyway. have fun. but don't screw yourself over. good luck 😂❤️
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2019-02-07 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093560267038834689)
- New monitor!
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2019-09-19 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1174541161106563072)
- You ever get that ADHD brain fog from inadvertently skipping meals while tumbling down a hyperfocus rabbithole, then wander around like a wispy ghoul in search of sustenance, then take a sip of iced coke & feel all of your systems come back online with the accompanying sugar rush
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2019-07-22 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153295674059833345)
- Nutella is made by Ferrero, the Italian company that also makes Kinder Bueno, Kinder Surprise & Ferrero Rocher. Ferrero is a very secretive company– Michele Ferrero (son of Pietro Ferrero, the founder) was the richest man in Italy ($20B), yet you don't really hear much the family
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2019-04-02 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1112995007751831552)
- So many of you Online Toughguys and Toughgals and Toughpersons are actually roughed-up softies at heart, I see u
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2019-04-30 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1123369966894342144)
- I've mentioned it a couple of times before but I want to bring it up again – this graph from @WaitButWhy explains *so* many things
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2019-03-08 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1103976313101025285)
- @ryan_nayr_ @webdevMason I write on many different mediums and over time my twitter style has infected my other mediums, I now blog and Facebook like I’m tweeting. I’ll now be able to find *this* tweet by searching “infected”. It’s actually modified the way I think to be search-friendly
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2018-10-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1047336815483543553)
- Now I have another dude trying to “explain the context”
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2018-07-15 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1018506187082350597)
- Nerf John Wick [3:19] is one of my favorite bits of film-making of all time. You can see how much love was put into it. So much attention to detail. Honestly this is beautiful and I can work myself up to get emotional about this if I want to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MrnAJsxL8c
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2017-11-22 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/933226029912674304)
- #nowreading Your Money Or Your Life, Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2018-04-24 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988755132367060993)
- 2/ There's the "get rich" game, "happy family" game, "tech founder" game, "self discovery" game. All subsets of the Human Game (Alan Watts)
  (resurfaced 2× · 22 likes · 2016-04-26 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/724976053932806144)
- 5. an essay i've been drafting and redrafting is one titled IN MEDIA RES, and it's kind of annoyingly poetic how it's eternally incomplete. this thread shall be another sketch of it
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2024-02-09 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1755764004440465790)
- @GlitchesRoux was just watching an old crashcourse vid that cited an interesting argument that... the idea of God as an entity that everyone is accountable to (including kings), was a precursor to the contemporary form(s) of Rule of Law...  (pics from https://ribbonfarm.com/2015/04/08/the-essence-of-peopling/)
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2021-07-26 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1419611131878907904)
- every public figure is either a team effort or they are doomed  you can be the solitary face of an operation, but bandwidth limitations means you’ll have to rely on other people for information, perspective, etc. and many celebs go mad in part bc they can’t trust their crew https://x.com/visakanv/status/1429113801211670533
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2022-12-01 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1598187440279150594)
- just learned about this video which went viral on tiktok last year; I’m amused at how yappy and neurotic his energy is. We are all works-in-progress, but some of us clearly at different stages than others 😅 I don’t wanna make fun of him too much but it’s quite an illustrative eg
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2022-03-30 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1508996816523567108)
- ugh it should be bucks. Kilobucks, megabucks, gigabucks. Facebook’s market cap is 656 gigabucks.
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2020-07-29 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1288291688679530496)
- Pericles' name literally means "surrounded by glory", and his life is another example of nominative determinism in action  born wealthy and influential, but rather than being a failson he instead challenged and inspired others to greatness
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2021-02-19 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1362685530371026945)
- Time, by @waitbutwhy [2013] https://x.com/michalkorzonek/status/1379472421426708482
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2021-04-06 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1379474806886735876)
- On hindsight, my first experience of “yikes the media I’m consuming is problematic” was when I was about 7, reading 1001 Arabian Nights - knowing that Scheherazade was telling those stories only because she was afraid of being murdered by her Husband
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-04-11 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1116206544951996416)
- jobs and wozniak created the most valuable company in the world by being cheeky mischievous hackers fooling around with what they thought was fun and interesting. that spirit of cheeky-curious mischief is IMO the most powerful thing in existence https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113647429197357056
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2020-09-06 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1302489563558850560)
- quick segue – here's a picture of me before I left my job (for a passport shot, lol), and one of me a couple of weeks after  I loved my job!! I loved my colleagues!!  but I am clearly so much happier and healthier and fresher without it  regardless of diet and sleep
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2018-12-18 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075128523122044928)
- 1. History of tapioca in Kerala https://x.com/advaidism/status/1090074070744363008?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-02-09 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094182428120276992)
- Eiffel openly acknowledged that he was inspired by the Latting Observatory in New York City, which was the tallest structure in NYC from 1853 until it was shortened in 1855. It burnt down in a fire in 1856  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latting_Observatory
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2020-04-16 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1250603403794776075)
- Rahul: hey Abdul you dumb ****, there’s going to be a civil war next month & we’re going to kill your whole family  Abdul: I don’t know anything about that, my parents don’t let me watch the news  Rahul: Oh, right, sorry. Perfectly understandable, I respect that. Have a nice day
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-05-11 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1127259372747280386)
- It’s actually remarkable to me how many musical artists I’ve witnessed performing in Singapore  Robert Plant Muse Mr. Big Foo Fighters L’arc~en~Ciel GNR (with Axl & Slash) Paramore (2x) Deep Purple Trucks Tedeschi Band Jason Mraz Anberlin  Several others I’m not remembering
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-05-25 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1132139463604183041)
- @vgr for SF in particular, seems like a vicious cycle of bad governance – cost of living is too high for people to seriously plan long-term unless they expect to make a lot of $$, in which case they're focused almost entirely on that and not so much on civic participation
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-10-31 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1189931788010811392)
- 51. From the "Nuclear Dharma" Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/DeflagrationSutra
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2018-11-17 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1063767269078032384)
- Was searching my phone for pics of books and ugh I miss my hair so much
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-10-03 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1179681365555417088)
- There’s a bit in Randy Pausch’s lecture where he talks about advice that his mentor gave him – something like, “you’re very smart, but the way you conduct yourself is unfortunate, because it makes it harder for other people to connect with you”  helped me decide to be kinder
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-01-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087026001278713861)
- The more I think about the Uncharted series, and the more I revisit the games, the more I love them. I think more fondly of the games and their universe as time goes on  Sad to think of all the media properties for which the opposite applies. GOT gets more sour with time
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-08-30 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1167382588027068421)
- cursory googling shows some people talking about shintoism, but my experience and study in related fields has taught me that the likeliest explanation is if you follow the incentives – ie tax
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-09-17 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1173867776433221632)
- Similarly I have Long had this idea of a Bhagavad Gita-esque lengthy horseride conversation between Gandalf, Aragorn and Legolas about their respective philosophies and worldviews. Just 3 people on horses, talking. Maybe they stop for food,
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-03-06 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1103213234205581312)
- Status is contextual. An interesting experience that I’ve been meaning to write about is going for Remedial Training. Singaporean men have to meet basic fitness standards to be combat-ready, and if you fail, you have to go for remedial training after work. It’s fascinating
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-04-16 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1117967485381124096)
- Heading into the city again today - I love how I’m getting more and more comfortable with it; I saw the train pulling in, recognized it was the SF-bound train and ran in just in time. I feel I’m getting a “foot feel” of this place and it’s a great feeling
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-05-01 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1123686571566354434)
- Afternoon! I’ve gotten quite comfortable with the BART over the past few days, starting to feel quite at home here. My ankles are pretty sore from all the walking 😂 my inner soldier is disappoint
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-04-30 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1123304743676235776)
- Morning! Having breakfast at my favourite cafe (Cafe Bueno Aires, 2999 Shattuck Ave) before BARTing to meet friends at Market Street, SF. I still haven’t finished updating yesterday’s thread, I’ll do that on the way after this
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-04-29 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1122923556067627008)
- "Fuck the police." – Alfred Dunhill  (Alfred was allegedly one of the first motorists, possibly *the* first, to be prosecuted for the charge of "driving furiously" at 25 miles per hour. He was fined one pound – which in 2019 would be ~US$150.)
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-04-07 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114869603778215937)
- @djmicrobeads @literalbanana @jibabom Yup my entire vibe is get ppl who have ideas and let them do stuff. With young people often they feel like they need to ask for permission. Fun thing about being an older friend is sometimes just saying “ok u have permission”
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2019-01-03 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1080752445158940677)
- A hilarious and self-referential scene from Chennai Express in 2014. SRK says “I’ve done this before” - referring to the finale of Dilwale Dulhania La Jahenge, a film from 1995 that *is still played in Indian cinemas today*
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2018-12-17 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074650398022000640)
- I think this might be the fastest I have become a fan of somebody's work / craft / style. Literally seconds and I'm like YES she gets it
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2017-11-16 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/931215658284699648)
- 1/ I think I've come a pretty long way as a writer, blogger, content creator. Most important lesson: Be purpose-driven. Know your end-goal.
  (resurfaced 2× · 21 likes · 2014-10-26 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/526282073728774145)
- Emilia:
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2019-05-29 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133596058238443520)
- apes aping together may feel more lonely rather than less
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2022-01-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1486649867392851971)
- @eigenrobot i think accomplishments are sort of a proxy for what i really care about, which are things like, integrity, spirit, curiosity, etc. if you have all of those things, you kinda almost can't help but accomplish things. but the accomplishments are also almost an embarrassment
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2022-12-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1600421588930658304)
- Twitter mutuals be like,
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2022-08-08 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1556785860015575041)
- Shrek: the anime
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2022-01-10 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1480540853097705474)
- there’s a lot going on in the map, but if you zoom out, it only shows you the most important objectives. I want this in everything too
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2020-12-10 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1336900892587520002)
- @sashachapin someone once drew a comic of teddy roosevelt wrestling a train
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2021-08-29 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1432123969335742465)
- @vgr I’m in inbox Fog of War, I don’t know wtf is in there and I’m kinda scared to find out
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2019-03-16 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106888182333759494)
- @michaelcurzi @tasshinfogleman @nosilverv Jesus Vs Hitler
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2021-08-02 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1422278986172825600)
- Idk if Rosenfelder is quoting Jacobs directly when he says "This is how every developed nation started [...] there is no other way."  no. other. way.  *everything* is a remix  remixers accumulate knowledge and power  you get to originality by first being derivative  No Other Way
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2021-07-03 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1411443015462264833)
- also her personal aesthetics game has been A+ from the beginning. you can criticize what she’s done but you can’t say she doesn’t look damn good as she’s doing it
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2020-09-24 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1309064549602144264)
- another mutual of Chesterton and Shaw was HG Wells  "He seemed always to be working out a philosophy of human progress"  you can see a pattern in how WW1, The Great Depression and WW2 shook intellectuals, turned them (understandably) pessimistic, cynical https://x.com/visakanv/status/1067772077241884673
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2021-01-09 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347923628503953408)
- Shaw and Chesterton were described as "fighting friends", "beloved enemies", rarely in agreement yet maintaining goodwill.  Plays have been written and staged about their rivalry, which was a gift to everyone in their scene https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153706486586994688
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2021-01-09 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347918711873699849)
- Nov 2020:  - did 100 talking points thread (👇🏾) - did a podcast with the lovely @MichelleAkin - defeated Hades! ~15+ times, 2 heat - watched Italian Job [2003] - crossed 80/100 youtube videos - still working on @introspectvv 😅 - reading Ted Nelson, 🔥  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1330984685992722433
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2020-12-01 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1333658742575878144)
- The 1st inhaler was invented by John Mudge in 1778 – to treat coughs with opium. In 1955, George Maison invented the Metered Dose Inhaler– his daughter struggled to used existing nebulizers, hence the pressurized canister. (I'm reminded of how a daughter led to the Polaroid, too)
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2019-12-09 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1204057783806509064)
- "What is humanity? [...] To over-simplify slightly, Akira is about losing humanity and Ghost in the Shell is about finding it; Akira explores its themes externally while Ghost in the Shell is all about looking inward." https://t.co/YLvSQrcAAS
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2018-05-25 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000067017867608064)
- tim apple had breakfast at tiong bahru market this morning
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2019-12-11 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1204645968039202818)
- Just look at how he turned his vision into reality, carving intricate details out of bare wood. This guy is the Michelangelo of guitar-woodworking. Who even imagined that this was a surface that could be used to tell such great stories? I want to run my hands all over these.
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2017-11-10 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/929087874862944256)
- That was CHAPTER ONE, THE EXPERIENCE OF MORAL CONFUSION  Now on to...  CHAPTER TWO: THE MYTH OF BARTER
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2018-11-22 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065615105398722560)
- “Cooperation doesn’t scale up, and innovation doesn’t scale down.” - @CathyReisenwitz  (Ie it’s hard to coordinate bigger groups, but you need big cities etc to have innovation)
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2019-05-02 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1123794416358109184)
- @TheAnnaGat I used to go to the library to read old copies of Men’s Health just to read the bartender advice column, I think it was definitely more useful to me than my actual schooling
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2019-06-29 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1144895802646470656)
- @BenedictEvans @pmarca Others intuited this- Mcluhan, Derrida. Here's JG Ballard in the 70s for Vogue: http://t.co/RPiiS4i2Ey
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2014-11-12 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/532464880285020160)
- if you're getting bored of all the content, I recommend going to non-english internet and then using google translate. so refreshing  the twist in the last one is pure @MNightShyamalan
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2019-02-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1098619950191697920)
- A lot of disagreements I’ve had with smart friends about how life should be lived could be framed in terms of  “Can the public be educated? Is it worth trying?” Are you a sucker for trying? Can you do it without inflating your ego in the process? Should you hedge your bets?”
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2019-02-05 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1092672593021132800)
- 2012: The classic trap of naive techno-optimism strikes again  "If people become the distribution network, that should be something good for media, good for reporting, and good for journalism."  Every techno-optimist forgets that people are also assholes  https://t.co/O5TBlQg8X1
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2019-02-04 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1092340118675808258)
- it seems to me that... asian-americans may have to struggle to prove their american-ness to other americans, but their american-centricism becomes their critically defining trait when they're hanging around the other 4.5 billion asians  i love this beautiful mess
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2018-12-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076909721435533312)
- In the military, you’re a maggot. But since everybody’s a maggot, there’s something liberating about it. There’s an honesty that’s refreshing. You are told what is truly expected of you, and what to expect in turn. you’re told about how the system of incentives is kinda perverse
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2018-10-09 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1049527312503328768)
- ya'll have no idea
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2018-08-18 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1030758367252307968)
- Most of us inherit an idea of God as a "world craftsman". If you think abt it, this idea could not predate craftsmanship. It's post-agrarian
  (resurfaced 2× · 20 likes · 2017-10-13 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/918951996052275200)
- 3. when a highlight is really good, I put a ⭐️ there, and I add it to an index on a blank page at the start or end of the book. this makes it easy for me to pick up any of my books and quickly find the quotes and sections that I thought were really good
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2022-02-17 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1494351025204912149)
- @AliAbdaal Whenever a friend says some version of this, I tell them to write their memoirs. Even if they never finish it or publish it, the act of putting together your life’s narrative is a great exercise, and you develop a sense of clarity that you carry with you
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2020-05-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1258038276201431041)
- temporarily switching out, sorta tired of being/having/showing a face for a while  (previous pic on right)
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2021-09-20 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1440014480277049346)
- Some people avoid this by never being founder/CEO of anything, but you can’t run from responsibility forever. At the very least you are responsible for yourself. You can try to run away from that but historically this isnt an effective strategy & it tends to lead to bad outcomes
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2021-02-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1361613194624593924)
- @michaelcurzi @PrinceVogel @eigenrobot I was just thinking recently that if Ender's Game were written in 2020, 80% of the Battle School nerds would be weebs
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2021-06-06 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1401387506688401410)
- Dinner 😋  Some of the best chutney (uh... coconut salsa?) in the world
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2019-12-07 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1203319107128451073)
- Took a video right out of bed 😂 I haven’t had coffee or brushed me teeth or anything yet. Normally I would be in the first 20-40 second state for at least 30 minutes
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2020-01-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1222033574053867520)
- Reminder than 🇮🇩 is the 4th most populated country in the world  As a Singaporean I think of it as 45 Singapores  🇺🇸 = 56 Singapores 🇮🇳 = 232 Singapores 🇨🇳 = 243 Singapores https://x.com/jackboardcna/status/1117082947931086848
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2019-04-14 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1117287420427288576)
- @Conaw this is a graph view of about 130 of my notes in Roam so far  I wish I could have this view for my twitter threads  I may actually end up... manually copying tweets into roam... we'll see
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2019-12-19 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1207702582790983680)
- When I was a kid messing around on my parent’s computer - I can’t even remember what the software was, I feel like it was MS Office but I’m not sure...? I was very into this font. Algerian
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2019-06-06 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1136621916632936448)
- TIL 90% of the human body's total serotonin is located in the GI tract, ie your gut  there's some association between IBS and serotonin fuckery  ... the "happy hormone" is stored in the ass 😅😂  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2019-06-09 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1137654541183094785)
- @ankitshah Almost nothing is absolutely certain. each piece of information has some possible/plausible truth value to some degree. You place each bit within a broader framework of other bits that are possibly/plausibly true, and look for resonance. Always be prepared for paradigm shifts
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2019-10-20 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1185846542466289664)
- Jared Leto, photographed by GQ, vs by Hawkeye Huey
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2018-09-25 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044538220929675264)
- Fibonacci sequency
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2018-04-01 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/980373601554612224)
- This is a big part of why I keep such elaborate threads. I just... am sick of getting burned bc I forgot something, bc I struggled to remember. It's really a *prosthesis*.  And somewhere along the line, people went from "Visa is so forgetful" to "Visa has a thread for that"
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2019-08-03 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1157629483018403842)
- The thing about disaster or threats or invasions etc that’s most compelling is rarely the intrusion itself, but usually our reactions to it. In Jaws - the mayor, the press, etc https://x.com/visakanv/status/1033297365359194112?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2018-08-30 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035076711249920000)
- I often use this phrase when talking about diaspora/sourceland conflict  season 1 was Russell Peters [2004], season 2 is Hasan Minaj and Lilly Singh  season 1 was Blade, season 2 is Black Panther  season 1 was Joy Luck Club, season 2 is Crazy Rich Asians
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2019-03-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108393370735394816)
- I think I have pretty good fridge magnet + memorabilia game
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2019-05-10 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1126818470887165959)
- My general rule is to avoid anything that's overly-optimized for predictable consumption. And I like being a consumer! I like playing status games! I just avoid the cookie-cutter ones because they're less fun + you can't really win big. There's always more fun stuff next door https://x.com/meredithdclark/status/1046395155929067520
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2018-09-30 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046398368853852161)
- People who are severely invested in their specific cults, sects, denominations and so on sometimes get offended when you point this out. All fandoms are fandoms, whether it’s Jesus or Logan Paul or BTS or Elon Musk or Taleb or Rajinikath or the Unabomber or AOC or LKY or Trump
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2018-12-18 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074918804184952832)
- I tweet ~5% of the things I think about tweeting, and I delete ~50% of tweets after typing them out. I used to worry privately that this was some sort of self-censorship, but I realise another way of framing it is... I’ve learned to game out the scenarios, and strategize
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2018-06-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1010375629512904704)
- It really looks like they made *everything* – I'm really enjoying the aesthetics, how classy and stylish – everything in its right place, in the right proportions
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2018-11-18 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064095812265758722)
- If you’re reading the same things everyone else is reading, you’re going to end up thinking the same thoughts everyone else is thinking. Read smart friends’ summaries of those books, then go find weirder books to read instead; it’s more interesting that way (generally speaking)
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2018-07-07 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015548921039314944)
- It is a dream come true for me to discover that there IS a legacy of traditional Indian tattoos, with Indian motifs, geometry, heritage, history. These need to be reimagined, reinterpreted, rediscovered by modern Indian artists. C'mon guys and gals we've got work to do
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2017-11-16 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/931211892424572930)
- Exactly what I suspected - Chinese girls in China don’t wear traditional outfits. It would be embarrassingly old fashioned. Qipaos are for white girls 🧐
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2018-05-05 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/992732137018220545)
- 🤔 It seems like the price of getting more interesting feedback, information and suggestions from strangers is simultaneously getting misunderstood, strawmanned and attacked as well. Managing this is an interesting challenge. Psychology aside, illegibility seems the best strategy
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2018-07-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014424798015905792)
- just unfollowed a whole bunch of people... and suddenly found that I have the same number of followers as people I follow, 150. Whoa
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2011-01-30 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/31795268181565441)
- Our TROUBLEMAKER mascara will withstand all the VIGOROUS LOVEMAKING you will experience when all the boys see ur FAT LONG BROWS 😍😍😍
  (resurfaced 2× · 19 likes · 2017-10-28 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/924305604167942144)
- im very fussy and precious about names. but when you get a name right, it becomes obvious in retrospect that it was worth the effort/wait. a well-named thing invokes and enacts itself, manifests and memes itself into existence
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2023-01-24 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1618004683666391041)
- you are already the monarch of your own life. you are already presiding over what is right and wrong inside your heart, about the way you conduct yourself day to day, privately, with yourself, within yourself. that's the arena that you practice in  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1160746630838009856
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2021-03-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1374322350833889283)
- the Coca Cola sign in Piccadilly Circus – went up in 1954: nearly a mile of neon, weighing 5,000 pounds, 17-second timing sequence, often featured in postcards  https://www.coca-cola.com/gb/en
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2020-05-23 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1264170515381358592)
- which reminds me, I used to wonder why Maserati had a neptune/poseidon reference (the trident), but it's also a hometown reference – the fountain of Neptune in Bologna, where the Maserati brothers (5 of them!) founded the company
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2020-12-08 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1336456629932359681)
- The Outer Worlds had fantastic loading screens that really contributed to the lore and world building – even the tips! really thoughtful, clever, immersive
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2020-12-19 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1340186166432165889)
- periodic reminder that my YouTube comments are an excellent place to hang out, even if you don’t actually watch the videos. It’s only going to get better from here. Subscribe now and help shape the culture 🥰🤗 https://www.youtube.com/visakanv
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2021-04-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1386563112392790017)
- feeling good, it’s all coming together
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2021-09-11 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1436635732076994572)
- @lsthmus Hmmm how young is childhood  Once I skipped school at 17 and started texting friends to see who was up/free. For some reason this younger girl acquaintance was, who I never really hung out with before. She said to come over and I did because there wasn’t really anything to do
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2018-07-31 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1024436023768432640)
- Left to me own devices I bet I could spend a week just writing and tweeting about the products in my local supermarket. Maybe a month, maybe longer. Could maybe even do supermarket alt account
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2019-03-16 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106856236417347585)
- every now and then if I see something that I want to save for future reference, when I'm on my desktop, I throw it into google keep – which I don't check very often, but is pretty useful in some sort of way that's hard to articulate
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2020-09-23 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1308739568632434688)
- I'm trying to find Jobs and introduce him to Wozniak  find Lennon and introduce him to McCartney  repeat 100,000 times  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153708306206035968
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2021-01-06 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1346905070781091842)
- @AskYatharth I will do whatever the fuck I want ❤️
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2021-01-11 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1348571267436199936)
- 38. people have loved their dogs for thousands of years :'-)
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2018-12-11 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072428297726902272)
- 11. Some of the older Ribbonfarm content is really underrated. I like the riffs on money from the Rust Age (fools and their money metaphors, etc) https://ribbonfarm.com/2009/03/02/fools-and-their-money-metaphors/
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2019-12-21 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1208347945814253569)
- @AdmiralOPG It only takes two retweets to end up in completely hostile territory
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2020-07-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1279761728687861760)
- I'm energized! It makes me proud and happy that the top comment on /r/singapore about the dominant political party questioning the loyalty of a local poet is a thoughtful, nuanced perspective on what it really means to love your country https://x.com/sharanvkaur/status/1275024810343456773
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2020-06-22 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1275029802274000896)
- Over to Thailand. I wonder what's the story with all the Michelin men toys/figures...?
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2018-12-12 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072782486579556352)
- Did the test thing. Haven’t watched Cowboy Bebop, though I am very on board with Weasley Twin energy
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2020-04-04 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1246459249556766725)
- this tweet is inspiring me to setup a patreon https://x.com/sehurlburt/status/1066780537329569792
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2018-11-26 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066852176062951424)
- Which leads me to a fun thought: do considerate antagonists exist? 😂 I think they do! I think that’s what addictive abusive relationships are like. Haters are fans too, and have a passionate intensity that lovers struggle to match
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2019-10-14 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1183629552125218816)
- Reading a book on a mostly-empty bus at night, on the way to meet old friends for supper. Moments like these are some of my happiest; quietly blissful
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2018-08-25 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1033347102246494208)
- here it is in 1 tweet. the edgelord protocol is as follows  step 1: find edge  step 2: go there  step 3: repeat step 1 https://x.com/0xa59a2d/status/1187716939008921601
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2019-10-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1188284474179510272)
- Jim Carrey described a version of this in his chat with Seinfeld - about how when he was ten years old, he wrote a letter to some talkshow host and got a response. Probably from her assistants. But he didn’t care: “I got a letter from Hollywood!!!”  He was 10
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2019-07-27 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1155042826914164736)
- Mean Girls Lord of War Contact Thank You For Smoking Wreck-it Ralph https://x.com/robtrench/status/1108200652004483073
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2019-03-22 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1109101153818566656)
- he also suggests making a "mood map", which reminds me of Paula Scher describing how the mood changes when you're making a pitch, and how you need to know when to stop on a high point. Pink suggests using a number scale – are people positive/open or negative/resistant?
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2018-08-25 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1033308036209635329)
- My close friends are much more intimately aware of my inconsistencies, hypocrisies, weak points, etc than my worst enemies  And we discuss these things, ideally over late night drinks, often with laughter, sometimes in hushed tones, like we’re in church  I ❤️ my echo chamber
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2019-01-20 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087038751283458049)
- 29. Hans Zimmer – Flight [2013]
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2019-01-21 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087335792114987008)
- And I just discovered Saira Hunjan! She is a real person who exists! YESSSS
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2017-11-16 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/931213651528306690)
- Just noticed that the @shopify article about @Jibabom (aka Statement) is out!  "In a society that prides itself on an almost ubiquitous Protestant work ethic, Visa’s approach seems radically out of place, bordering on aberration." 😂  https://t.co/1m5FVaN45J
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2018-09-10 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1038981722509996032)
- “Sometimes I wonder if I live in a state of chronic sleep deprivation to deliberately dampen my level of consciousness, because at some level it’s “easier” to respond to crises than to take responsibility for everything proactively.” <- I wonder now about how hormones affect this
  (resurfaced 2× · 18 likes · 2018-07-12 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017339387204460550)
- @PaulDavidLatter made a video talking about it- basically the idea is to consider using frame stories, sidenotes, digressions-within-digressions etc to convey the good stuff in a way that is freer than if it were the top-level subject. using minor characters in a novel to speak the best lines https://x.com/visakanv/status/1773971401336324273
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2024-04-02 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1775233057009930323)
- 6. i haven't yet figured out why I haven't published something about the people I call "switchboard operators", which others have described as superconnectors, honest brokers, community organizers, etc. i suppose I'm looking for a compelling... phrase?
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2024-02-10 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1756330155637694476)
- I have been described as being both really optimistic and really pessimistic, but really I think I just try to make sense of things as accurately as possible. A lot of the time I find myself thinking/saying "but... it's just math?"
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2020-09-14 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1305573676650172417)
- "... the eye recovers some of the PERCEPTUAL INNOCENCE of childhood, when the SENSUM WAS NOT IMMEDIATELY AND AUTOMATICALLY SUBORDINATED TO THE CONCEPT. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls almost to zero."
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2021-11-30 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1465625264520523777)
- these are some ladies who work the rice fields, check out how amazing their teeth is. behold the movie star smiles of my people
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2022-04-15 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1515068906486267904)
- act 3 we begin to get into the murky depths of things. but we have faith & hold the line bc we know we are walking an ancient path that our predecessors walked before us. this is what we've been training for. we get into our fears, investigate our copes, confront our programming
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2022-01-18 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1483355426775527426)
- i knew a guy who was suicidal and his therapist literally suggested – on paper!! – that he should seek more responsibility at work so that he wouldn't be distracted by suicidal thoughts. that's where we're at. this was around 2015 or so maybe
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2022-01-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1483907185776402432)
- what do we know about Marco Polo  he was born in Venice in 1254  he died also in Venice in 1324, aged 69  his father and uncle (Niccolo & Maffeo) were travelling merchants before he was born, they lived a few years in Constantinople, then Crimea, Bukhara…
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2021-11-08 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1457663781132070917)
- I wish I could like... eat sour patch kids... for charity
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2019-06-10 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1138164505207197697)
- I saw a video a few days ago of a 14-year-old boy who met Gary Vee, crying and shaking as he talked about his shitty dad and how he had no friends. Gary listened attentively and spoke his truth to the kid. The kid was seen. Still thinking about it
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2018-09-11 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039534052720619520)
- fleshing out the doc of the FAN grant, got some submissions. ongoing work in progress.  if you've written or you know anybody who's written anything about scenes and community etc let me know (you can reply to this tweet or suggest in doc)  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rBZevirkIsj2EyOR3JDPjXCQqDTlC2BWCtYXr_bgf0k/edit?usp=sharing
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2021-05-11 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1391960082531840001)
- he had many tutors in his life, including Zeno of Zeno's Paradox fame  Corroborates with David Banks' hypothesis that exposure to great teachers at a young age has an outsized effect  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1361220067526991875
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2021-02-19 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1362686237467807746)
- 5. "The engine Jacobs finds for all economic life-- is import replacement. [...] This process not only creates work, it creates expertise and innovation. And it creates wealth."
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2021-05-11 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1391987344345993220)
- Suddenly remembered how *distressed* my sister’s precious, sweet-hearted friend got when I accidentally told her that I routinely re-evaluate my subscription to life  😅 you can’t be too honest with some people https://x.com/russianmemesltd/status/1041683691859144705
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2019-01-11 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083597453784301569)
- Did you know THPS was indirectly responsible for My Chemical Romance???
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2019-03-09 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1104402118327189504)
- @QiaochuYuan For the 1990 kids:
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2019-12-20 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1207948348138721280)
- workshopping the idea here, pls leave comments with suggestions, questions, etc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rBZevirkIsj2EyOR3JDPjXCQqDTlC2BWCtYXr_bgf0k/edit?usp=sharing
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2021-03-30 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1376743860143988738)
- Framed another way: if you don’t come up with the stupidly simplistic soundbite that people will use to talk about you, someone else will https://x.com/visakanv/status/1212952768891146242?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2020-01-05 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1213714961983143941)
- Experimenting with a different format. What do you think?
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2018-07-07 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015454855614291968)
- v different energy. I can imagine someone getting angry about receiving "You're blocked" – how fucking dare he??? but if it's "user not found" it's more like "huh weird"  a really motivated hater will whip themselves into a fury anyway, tru, but the app doesn't have to incite it
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2020-05-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1265535680463192078)
- @startuployalist you'll enjoy this transcript of a teacher using socratic questioning to teach kids binary https://t.co/zhbjsvLZGM
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2020-07-25 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1287071541302198272)
- i'm pretty excited about the prospect of building out an FAQs page, which feels easier to navigate and share than individual twitter threads. now I wish that I kept a log of every question anybody's ever asked me  https://roamresearch.com/#/app/visakanv-public/page/XoBf-l4bG
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2020-05-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1262152466252001282)
- @sonyasupposedly @danlistensto @mechanicalmonk1 @GeniesLoki @goblinodds (this is interestingly true even of many professional chefs, many of whom *could* theoretically eat clean etc, but are in such a high-stress environment, running on adrenaline, etc that they end up eating junk and smoking cigarettes and looking like shit from exhaustion)
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2020-05-16 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1261482736214175745)
- oooh I love that there's a video of this on my timeline. whenever I go to the beach I spend a long time just staring at this, and visualizing how it's actually the entire universe, and our lives, and our mental models, and everything there is, was, will ever be https://x.com/DaronLarson/status/1109842390272131073
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2019-03-24 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1109862062233026560)
- a couple of cute pictures of Land and his daughter Jennifer around 1945, when he was prototyping his cameras
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2019-10-30 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1189479461361569793)
- 67. Been doing breathwork every day (which is itself remarkable because I‘m bad with new habits). My sleep is better. I boot up faster and fresher. I feel more “embodied”. Funniest thing might be: I think I’m also getting quite a bit more emotional,,, you may have noticed 😂😭😍
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2020-01-28 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1222303682361876480)
- Consider the elaborate, wonderful game of theatre - the actor keeps her own person distinct from the role. And yet she’s aware that she’s acting. We the audience are in complicity with her mask. We allow her performed emotions to move us, but we don’t forget that she’s an actor
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2018-07-04 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014468627192471554)
- 33. For @DestruReeva - on making friends, I think the most critical thing is to have the right fundamental frame, or “vibe” - which is to start by believing that friendship is *possible*. recognize that people have been friends for generations, and notice that people are doing it
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2019-09-30 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1178659698507075584)
- I seem to be getting more eye contact from strangers today than usual
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2018-11-04 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1059058401534070786)
- my best tweets are all in the replies to my friends https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139211048240631809
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2019-06-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139226353071300608)
- Couldn’t quite get the shot in time, but there’s an ad for Uber Eats(?) on this auto. I’m intrigued by how relatively recent tech companies get their ads into relatively obscure seeming locations, and how local people think about these mysterious apps built in faraway lands
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2018-12-03 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1069713668298891265)
- Spending money can be a way to respond to feelings of resentment and powerlessness. Stopping the spend can mean confronting how much you hate your life, and consequently how much you hate yourself. This is a psychologically painful process for many
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2018-04-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/989335465764401152)
- Thinking abt what Alan Watts said about the advice problem - even when you solicit advice you end up choosing which advice you listen to
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2017-06-17 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/875987988093599744)
- The injustice has long been apparent
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2019-01-26 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089173038380179457)
- @vgr fun oversimplification: a need is a want which doesn't go away when you stop believing in it
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2016-03-07 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/706694556910129152)
- @devonzuegel @RainyDuke I have a mutuals-only alt, like an upstairs bedroom at a noisy house party. I wonder why more people don’t do this
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2019-01-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1081588207119097856)
- This is actually a *fantastic* example of how history is sanitized, neutered, made innocuous with plausible deniability. It’s Orwell-lite, a chill, cool version of Big Brother that’s harder to spot https://x.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1053088990755254272
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2018-10-19 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1053254846793433088)
- Non-judgemental, observational hypothesis: seems to me that the right has a bias to underthinking and the left has a bias to overthinking. Neither of these default positions is intrinsically good or bad. Intellectual Twitter in general is swarming with overthinkers (including me)
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2018-07-08 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015836836927660033)
- a universal human feeling https://x.com/RussianMemesLtd/status/1065285962995908608
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2018-11-23 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065932549795438593)
- A luxury brand that really vibes my personality is Moschino. It's a lot of what I try to do with @statement_sg – but with a lot more resources. There's this general, irreverent way of just taking things that are around you, pointing at them, zooming in&out like a funhouse mirror
  (resurfaced 2× · 17 likes · 2018-03-14 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/973834629793894402)
- mmmm woke up still thinking about language norms  the internal reality of my experience oscillates wildly across extremes,  and/but for the most part social reality demands something that approximates “moderation”, a “measured position”, something “normal”
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2021-03-12 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1370280989264519172)
- heck, I'll do it myself. reminder that Twain lived 1835 –1910  opens with a UK/US cultural difference curiosity  "It is a curious thing, the currency that an idiotic saying can get."  "American's Adoration of the Almighty Dollar"
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2022-08-17 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1559817804005916672)
- my ideas about wojaks, pantheons, gods, attention metrics, archetypes, The Algorithm, desire paths, etc are all kind of the same thing but it takes a long time to let the paths emerge
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2022-09-08 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1567703727049691141)
- looks like somebody from North Dakota just bought FAN, which now makes it my preferred Dakota
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2022-03-09 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1501587327478419469)
- This is an older painting by Canaletto, in 1742  you may notice the arch seems to be in worse condition than in later paintings – this is because Pope Pius VII got Giuseppe Valadier to restore it in 1821
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2022-02-16 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1493940326536343552)
- I kind of had a whole Zuko arc, where I used to be desperate for honor and glory to try and assuage a broken spirit, but I couldn’t quite see the humor of my situation, I couldn’t quite see how I was getting in my own way
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2021-10-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1447372579392540673)
- "Humans do this with abstract concepts as well. Ideas that have no existence outside of the mind. Since these metaphors are all humans have to express themselves, these concepts become just as "real" as perceivable objects."
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2019-11-03 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1190914793055539200)
- @Saurya how I currently frame it is, if you're obsessive about X to the detriment of your health, well-being, relationships, etc (let's call this Y), perhaps the mistake is that you're not giving enough of a shit about Y  sloppiness with Y eventually interferes with your ability to X
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2021-09-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1439939403418247168)
- At Doom's Gate, 2021
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2021-08-17 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1427681944523874308)
- YUSEF: Ahmed where the edited footage of the 2019 recruitment video  AHMED: almost done  AHMED: I’ll send it to you by tomorrow, I promise  YUSEF: what’s taking so long?? I swear Ahmed if you don’t do it I will behead you myself  AHMED: kill me daddy  YUSEF: what  AHMED: what
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2019-01-23 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087953466520154113)
- @sullyj3 @GeniesLoki use the Sword of Friendship  it's super effective
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2021-03-04 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1367528552455761920)
- 42. wrist friend II: maharaja boogaloo
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2020-10-09 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1314543075780222977)
- "If children do not learn democracy in schools, where will they learn it?" – Debbie Meier
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2020-11-04 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1323917957840338944)
- whenever I hear anybody go on about "participation trophies", I always ask – have you actually met and spoken to anybody who got a participation trophy who was actually happy about it + derived actual self-esteem from it directly? because this is how they look IRL
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2019-09-11 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1171884252998160384)
- if you're looking to subscribe to twitterfriends on youtube I maintain a list  if you have a youtube channel let me know and I'll include it  https://roamresearch.com/#/app/visakanv-public/page/X-4Tu3_wq
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2021-01-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1352201812317622274)
- "The true strength of rulers and empires lies... in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open, truthful, and legal. As soon as government departs from that standard, it ceases to be anything more than "the gang in possession" and its days are numbered." – H.G. Wells
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2020-11-04 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1323920567817302017)
- I have very few people I regard as equals. Everyone is either more fail than me, or way too awesome for me. WTB more peers/equals
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2010-11-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/29645782967)
- Here’s an extreme POV, but I think there’s truth in here: When an adult tries to participate as a kid in kidspace, it can come across as clingy, needy, insecure – and also implies a certain patronizing mistrust. “I need you to like me & you won’t like me unless I play your games”
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2018-07-01 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1013308992905285632)
- 5. I remember saving this because I thought to myself, “why does SRK dress like a desi migrant worker?” and it took me a full minute to realise that migrant workers dress like SRK
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2019-01-19 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086584384545640448)
- I think Amanda Palmer - and yeah I know she’s messy and problematic etc - explored this really well, which might be mind-opening for some people who never considered this frame: https://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2020-06-20 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1274233111656579072)
- @RoamResearch I tried to do a version of this with workflowy once, but the absence of an internal linking system meant that trees would get very big and cumbersome  roam slices this gordian knot  highlighted in blue is my India master node, you can see how it's interlaced with everything
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2020-01-08 · Programming & Code · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1214750925803278337)
- there are some real artists on Etsy
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2019-12-23 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1209155617148948486)
- Cute and sexy are two sides of the same coin
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2019-02-03 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091944194677956608)
- On the lookout for a better kind of fun
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2019-08-12 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1160907621030694912)
- After a couple of days off, I just managed a personal best of 7 pullups in 1 set, which I don’t think I’ve done in over a decade- when I was like 20kg lighter. Feels good!  [Pullups 145-151 out of 1000]
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2019-01-26 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089088464891502592)
- This is not exhaustive, but:  I think a good question is a sort of inviting challenge.  It’s not too open (“how do I become successful?”)  and it’s not too closed (googleable facts, eg “what is electromagnetism?”)
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2018-11-25 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066613663253942273)
- 12. The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande. Very humbling to be reminded in detail how there are people who go to work every day and make decisions that literally affect whether people live or die... and how simple checklists make a significant difference https://x.com/visakanv/status/963041757284909061
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2018-02-23 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/967095193370439682)
- Alright!!! Bring me Thanos!!!
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2019-04-26 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1121860442366906368)
- you don't actually have to be swept up in outrage cycles  you can actually choose to not give in to that  which isn't to say you have to ignore it – you can use it as motivation to make something better  it's not perfect but I highly recommend it   https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088407606354276352
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2019-03-10 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1104610799543152640)
- This thread got me wondering what my biggest mistake is 🤔  The boring “appease the teacher” answer is “lift more, sleep more, manage my time better, confront my fears...”  I think the actual answer might be that I didn’t indulge myself + my nonsense nearly as much as I could’ve https://x.com/mikermedici/status/1039587165376851968
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2018-09-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039627419185901568)
- A reckoning of women
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2018-07-11 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1016961085587447808)
- This reminds me of a joke one of my enciks (NCOs) told us when we were in the army. “Don’t say you have no choice. The army gives you a lot of choice. Do you bathe first or brush your teeth first? Put on left boot first or right boot first? So many choices! So much freedom!” https://x.com/chasemit/status/1023749086028029953
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2018-07-31 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1024118105574789120)
- @legalinspire I'm starting to think that by the time you reach around, say, Neil Tyson or Nassim Taleb level of celebrity, being precise about your thoughts starts to feel inconsequential – ie, people are going to warp and misunderstand whatever you say anyway, so you might as well get woo-ey
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2018-04-30 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/990802889445556224)
- Went looking Yuko up and I love her style. Trying to do something similar myself in my own way for my own tastes and interests, this sort of remixing of worlds
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2018-07-14 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1018049292785709057)
- TIL about Indian tribal tattoos!!! How am I so late to this??
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2017-11-16 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/931207990610419715)
- I once wanted to write an essay titled "everybody poops"... but I never quite got it out
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2017-08-14 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/896923474991620096)
- 16/ Take Jordan or Bryant. They're basketballers. But they're more than that. They're experts at the meta-game of self-regulation.
  (resurfaced 2× · 16 likes · 2016-04-26 · Sports · https://x.com/visakanv/status/724981742138843136)
- if you've only ever listened to "a thousand miles" by vanessa carlton, may I recommend one of my favorite songs of all time, white houses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM3fEJyPrrg
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2021-06-04 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1400697818940018689)
- honestly this just looks like a gathering of twitter mutuals
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2021-04-16 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1383141982667644934)
- @nvpkp and dig a little deeper, often it’s the voices of caregivers/parents, family, peers, community, society, culture interrupting us. in a way you could even argue that almost all of human civilization is designed to interrupt the OODA loop of us fulfilling our own deepest desires
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2022-03-11 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1502384001062895617)
- was chatting with @TheAlexYao abt scenes, cities, Jane Jacobs, import replacements – and he casually brought up that fact that The Beatles started as a cover band. Which is a fact I'm familiar with re: remixing, but I never thought to make this connection  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1391987344345993220
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2021-07-03 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1411441407223484416)
- 🇲🇽
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2021-06-09 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1402566088915767299)
- 65. coffee with @ejames_c - maritime & continental Southeast Asia, slingshot theory, blogging, scenius, golden ages, Deutsch, creativity, cultural constraints, startups, funding, Sony, Baghdad House of Wisdom, the Designed Life, prestige vs ambition, long games, highest order bit
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2021-05-08 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1390981595247497217)
- it can help tremendously to envision an ideal state you’d like to inhabit even if it doesn’t seem possible or realistic rn and you don’t see a clear path. It can still work as a sort of navigational aid, like a landmark in the distance that you’re trying to get closer to
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2021-05-08 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1390858624608522243)
- Lightning is the OG example of electricity in action. It begins as collisions between water particles in a cloud. The collisions cause a massive buildup of electrical charge; ie the cloud gets "polarized". Once a stray packet of negative charge hits the ground, ⚡️⚡️⚡️!
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2018-09-10 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039037875939987456)
- Which reminds me of this guy who was apologizing to all women on behalf of all men, and got mocked and trampled for it. You know, I honestly believe there's about an 80% he was being completely sincere. But it's like a second-hand car salesman going NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS CAR!!!
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2017-12-09 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/939554874965999617)
- cleaning out + updating my Spotify playlists and thinking that Rihanna, while obviously famous, still somehow seems underrated as an artist to me – consistently putting out bangers for ~15 years now
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-05-22 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1131232250018713600)
- All of this by the way isn’t happening in a vacuum. It happens within a context where the adults in your life lied to you “to protect you”. Moana, Wonder Woman, Thor, Black Panther, Tangled, all of these movies tried to tell you that people you trust will lie to you
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-07-11 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149252131465003009)
- One man, five dogs, and the Pacific Ocean
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-05-07 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1125819235739914241)
- Any prolonged absence of the parent causes tension in the infant and consequent impulses of aggression (also when the Mother is obliged to hamper the Child)  Thus the first object of the child’s hostility is identical with the first object of its love
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-06-13 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139131358092021762)
- first cut is live:  thx everyone for... contributing 😬  would love further feedback, suggestions, etc  https://t.co/YjIFDECsR2
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-11-13 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1194625018233118721)
- Decided to get a hot chocolate. Treat yoself! It’s super counter-intuitive to me that indoors is warmer than outdoors
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-04-26 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1121835460848787456)
- One of my story ideas is a reimagining of religion thru lens of filmmaking. God as cosmic filmmaker. Universe as fractal of celluloid film
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2017-10-13 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/918955749329444864)
- Every twitter thread is an art gallery
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-07-01 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145572318107668481)
- The reply to this  “If you meet a Conan on the road, the Conan kills you”  😂😂😂😂😂 https://x.com/onetrueposter/status/1166424252704284674
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-08-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1166628340758929408)
- I've found myself returning to @waitbutwhy's Danger Scale repeatedly these days  Making the transition from living and working in 1-4 to 5-8 is an uncomfortable process  Can you think of any specific articles, quotes, etc that deal with this transition specifically?
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-02-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093135938669035520)
- @chowcollection @namiiMercurii Wait, so an artist indirectly got empowered with a camera downstream of me talking about stuff on Twitter...?
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-05-30 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1134136748815003649)
- "Religions are, mostly, the rotting corpses of dead mystical schools. They're founded by people who have primary mystical experiences [..] & (for whatever reason) do not interpret the content of those experiences into the terms of the religious traditions available around them" https://x.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1128908272948244481
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-05-16 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1128933078326321152)
- Following so far? Now... music is a metaphor for literally everything. For ideas, for language, for relationships. Everything is musical. Music is one of my favourite metaphors because the goal is often to play beautifully more so than to win a specific type of game
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2018-12-08 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071348775933771776)
- @vgr alts:  go out of date overstay their welcome become stale / predictable / formulaic get boring go out of fashion become irrelevant get outcompeted, outshined, overtaken, overshadowed cease to inspire get alzheimer's start mumbling get put in the nursing home
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2018-11-18 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064058424340561920)
- Interesting to me that these Hindu and Chinese temples near my place both have lions / lion symbolism at their entrances
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-02-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1100553777403256833)
- I was thinking about this again because I saw this font used by Chinese Singaporeans on marketing material for Chinese New Year - which I thought was funny and interesting because there’s no way the Chinese would’ve come up with this font on their own
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-01-10 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083372531099172864)
- 2019 book thread
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-03-02 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101760380680921088)
- @0x49fa98 @LandsharkRides Personally I’ve been in a “if shit hits the fan, revert to blogs and comments” kinda mood recently
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2019-03-14 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106006382711472128)
- @androgynandrew small brain: marketing = getting leads, sales = converting leads to customers  medium brain: marketing = positioning, sales = conversion optimization  galaxy brain: marketing = domesticating patterns of human behavior, sales = natural consequence of marketing
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2018-05-31 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1002084653421838337)
- reluctant princess / protagonist
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2018-09-30 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046194474949345281)
- how a male-dominated, male-focused, male-directed, male-produced media leads to a systemic misunderstanding and erasure of women's lives in popular consciousness https://x.com/visakanv/status/896089241930706944
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2017-12-10 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/939914000887824384)
- Speak ye, of The Donald and The Elon, the highpriest godkings of the embittered age. Speak of their power, speak of their wealth, speak of the loyalty of their armies! Loyalty!! My life for Elon! My life for Donald! Vengeance will be ours, lads!! Reclaim what is ours!!
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2018-07-10 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1016573791604899841)
- Passion Made Possible
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2017-08-25 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/900981288655478784)
- According to Karl Paulnack of the Boston Conservatory, the first organized activity after September 11 was singing. People sang “We Shall Overcome” and “America The Beautiful”, and that was the beginning of a sense that life might go on after such senseless tragedy
  (resurfaced 2× · 15 likes · 2018-05-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/999464132800798721)
- when a bad actor is inside your loop, it feels like you’re being directly smited by a vengeful god. they’re seemingly always 3 steps ahead of you. (In a *sense* they are? but also not.) every time you turn to face them they’re already gone
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2022-09-08 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1567851223759622148)
- it's time to scapple
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2020-12-25 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1342365051341000705)
- @pragueyerrr we are siblings confirmed
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2021-08-23 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1429799567105531906)
- @empathy2000
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2021-05-29 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1398567908259753986)
- One of his insights - which is true in my exp too - is that if you look different, people will treat you with suspicion, even hostility, but once you speak their language to/with them, it throws them off, and suddenly now you’re one of them. It’s truly a kind of Jedi mind magic
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2020-03-03 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1234654134793465857)
- 67. “Do 100 thing” might seem trivial if you’ve never tried it. But scroll up through this thread yourself and get a sense of what even 2/3rds of it feels like. It takes 2 mins each time to film but it’ll take you 2+ hours to watch all of it. Baby steps fucken add up!!
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2021-06-27 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1409069454990856193)
- Saddam Hussein could see the ruins of Babylon (where Hammurabi was king ~3,800 years ago) from his summer palace
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2020-05-24 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1264572408549134337)
- Bits from the Rotten doc on Avocados: 11,000,000,000 lbs of avocados are sold a year. People have gotten murdered over it. There are avocado cartels
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2019-10-16 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1184416504739061760)
- I’m playing the long game here
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2019-11-28 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1199937332352176128)
- Few change their minds when dug into an entrenched position, true. Which is why you have to play the long game. The really long game. Years
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2017-11-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/927927527393214464)
- "the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder... overwhelming misery, overwhelming fornication, overwhelming growth, overwhelming lack of order... there is no harmony in the universe... i love it against my better judgement"  https://x.com/HomeInMonrovia/status/1369690269101162499
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2021-04-24 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1386105254790328322)
- how I thought about the positioning of my ebook
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2020-02-24 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1231963366261809153)
- @sonyasupposedly one of the funniest things I've found is that a lot of people who claim to be idealistic or optimistic aren't actually so; they mainly play-act it for social reasons  it's funny because it means they're pessimistic about optimism https://x.com/visakanv/status/1197924887316201474
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2020-04-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1254817675122884608)
- @vgr it's easy to forget now, but twitter was (relatively) HUGE for link-sharing around 2009-2014. Even now if I search "-from:visakanv Visakan Veerasamy", tonnes of the tweets are from lots and lots of links to old blogposts, Quora posts, Hacker News posts, etc
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2019-04-04 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113877565360365568)
- 🇸🇬 SG friends: @qamuri and I are working on Statement’s second product - a card game called @JIBABOM!  We’ve been having a lot of fun with it ourselves and I can’t wait for ya’ll to try it out 😻 the cards will have a 50s Superman comics + “mafia noir” aesthetic
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2018-07-13 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017586510806126592)
- Spielberg made ET before ET, but it was more of an imitation of conventional sci-fi at the time than an expression of his taste and perspective  Everything is a remix, every artist starts by copying others  (Also he was a school-skipper. Yaaas fam)
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2019-11-16 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1195592793646743552)
- - bronze -> iron - persian empire - buddha - "knock knock it's chandragupta" - "no one conquers the tamil kings! who were the tamil kings? merchants probably." - "who would like to buy the spices? me, said the arabians." - roman empire - jesus - silk road - religion via trade
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2019-09-07 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1170273134374600704)
- @made_in_cosmos My approach for dealing with someone truly on the brink is to distract them from the thought pattern that they’re in. Hey, I’m Visa, what’s your name? [name], looks like you’re having a rough time. Talk to me. Did you have breakfast today? I had waffles. Do you prefer pancakes?
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2020-03-12 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1238009430349766656)
- There are many versions of the story of Arachne – she was a talented human weaver who dared to challenged Athena's superiority  Storytelling-wise, it makes most sense to me that Arachne won the weaving contest and was "awarded" the prize of being turned into a spider
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2019-10-06 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1180803275546738690)
- [cw: graphic violence]  Now here are the first 2mins of Doom. Can you feel the intensity? What's cool to me is knowing that the team debated internally about having all sorts of tedious intro exposition – and ultimately chucked it all out. Good call! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thq_zP7vmmQ
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2019-09-17 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1173991558393163776)
- 59. 2019 was “the year of Twitter” for me, I want to experiment with making 2020 “the year of YouTube”
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2019-12-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1206851357245767681)
- Cow got somewhere to be, too  (It’s interesting to pay attention to the sort of background soundtrack of everyday sounds - birds, roosters, dogs, engines of different vehicles... and then contrast that with home)
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2018-12-04 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1069865945319915520)
- 46. Beers and dinner with @cigardubey - trauma, therapy, mental health, relationships, masculinity, status games, dominance hierarchies, cultural differences (Mumbai, Helsinki, SG, SF) abstractions, brain bugs, managing conflict, being vulnerable, having faith in other people
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2019-07-11 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149347616695570432)
- Similarly - a boy can receive all the love & support in the world from his single mom, and that’s absolutely beautiful- and, he will be nourished by meeting a man who demonstrates by eg what it means to be a good man.  In the absence of such men, he will learn from his peers
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2019-03-02 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101986647665664000)
- 43. Killiney with @jurvistan & Niklaus: being a creative, self-directed person in Singapore, being simultaneously undersocialized and oversocialized, schooling vs education, developing taste, making friends, disagreement judo, oral histories, growing up online, slingshot theory
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2019-06-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139830278417813504)
- In the age of social media, the idea that we're all living in a simulation is getting popular. God as Chief Simulation Officer; a cosmic CTO
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2017-10-13 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/918953397272768512)
- Gene used his office facilities at work to put together KISS’s first media kit. He copied the addresses of every record company and manager listed in music trade magazines and sent all of them a copy. “The best way to hit a bulls-eye is to use a machine gun.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2018-08-24 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1032869536167383043)
- an interesting thing I don’t think I properly disambiguated: sleepiness and wakefulness (vigilance, arousal) are *separate*.  If you’re really sleepy AND really vigilant (eg anxious/stressed about your inability to sleep), your insomnia is not a lack of sleepiness
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2019-04-22 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1120318390164279296)
- Kaya toast with Jacq: being a teacher, paths not taken, teenagers & technology, gentrification, commutes, long distance relationships, family drama, travelling and settling down, pet-sitting, history as binge-watching past seasons of current affairs, thinking about making humans
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2018-09-06 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1037649650302386177)
- @danlistensto @listmouse @0K_ultra @insurrealist @hikikomorphism @sonyaellenmann If you gaze long into an idea space, the idea space will gaze back into you
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2019-03-21 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108851170997473280)
- Hello new followers! For you: I've been thinking about how our metaphors of God have changed over the years. It's quite revealing
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2017-10-13 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/918951538764038144)
- “What if we reconcieve all of society as a market?”  That 👏🏾 was 👏🏾 always 👏🏾 going 👏🏾 to 👏🏾 be 👏🏾 the 👏🏾 end 👏🏾 goal 👏🏾 of 👏🏾 capitalism  How else could the story have gone? It’s a paperclip maximising game
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2018-11-15 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1062990688982192129)
- going to bed tonight angry about the ill-treatment of words
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2018-11-15 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1063069532409880576)
- @AhaanChopra1 @lester_kn @Saisailu97 And you think “humans are violent deal with it” is an effective way of persuading people who are angry and grieving about violent injustice to “move the discussion to a deeper level”?
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2018-11-16 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1063287716048101376)
- tactical combat saris
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2018-10-19 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1053284668974329857)
- I think being the richest country in the world makes you a target for the most ambitious con men - freedom.exe installed as a Trojan horse to facilitate a massive transfer of wealth.  Bet: 20 years from now all of this will be looked back on as the greatest heist in history https://x.com/apompliano/status/1000381226950291456
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2018-05-28 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000920586393022464)
- The funny, meta thing is – Crazy Rich Asians is set in Singapore, where Chinese Singaporeans are the majority, and non-Chinese Singaporeans (👋🏾) are the ones who relate to this minority experience. Hopefully this leads to more empathy for all, from all https://x.com/kimmythepooh/status/1030606408365027334
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2018-08-19 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1031213212383887360)
- In 2006, some people would just stop using the internet for a few days around Christmas time. (back then you had to "Go Online". Today you're always online, and you have to "Unplug")
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2017-11-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/931629533152841728)
- A difficult and important thing to do is to pay attention to what you find interesting, what you're curious about. Harder than it sounds
  (resurfaced 2× · 14 likes · 2017-06-29 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/880381388238667776)
- @tasshinfogleman A little late but yea I have several spares even
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2022-05-19 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1527143124782329857)
- 1996 article about widespread myopia in Singapore’s children. Increasingly common and more severe  Dr Chew Sek Jin, headed Singapore Eye Research Institute’s myopia unit: “our children lead different lifestyles… spend much more time studying… we are trying to find a treatment”
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2021-10-31 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1454782075999948803)
- 17. “The book has a million things good about it, plenty of practical advice tailored towards understanding yourself, building approaches to managing your psychology, and confronting your deepest fears — and astonishingly, it delivers on its immensely ambitious metaphorical arc.” https://x.com/semanticz0/status/1490940165376061440
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2022-02-08 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1490983419295432708)
- sometimes i read my past utterances and im like bro what is this ambition. bro i need a nap https://x.com/visakanv/status/1285958574129086470
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2021-02-09 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1359054537043025923)
- @uneventomato all deviants share a fraternal bond
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2022-03-12 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1502686183779840000)
- I'm tingling, I know that others have been on this path before, and I know how to find them  it's cannot be a coincidence that we independently arrive at the EXACT SAME WORDS
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2021-10-23 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1451833233331478537)
- @david_perell this is also how Lin Manuel described working on Hamilton – "I'm also trying to make it the densest couplets that I can write. So if I express something in four lines, the challenge became 'Can I express that now in two lines?'" https://x.com/RottenTomatoes/status/1280619707893071872
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2021-10-21 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1451277089391321090)
- related
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2019-02-08 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093809818635165696)
- The Original Mass Effect Trilogy was so good, people got tattoos of it – because of what it meant to them  Nobody has tattoos of any of the characters or ideas from Mass Effect Andromeda. It wasn’t good enough, nobody cared enough. What a shame, what a waste
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2019-04-14 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1117458677848363008)
- 038: STATUS REGULATION  - disparities in how people treat other people trying to do things in public - what does it mean to "deserve" attention, an audience, etc? what will "the public" tolerate? - people who feel constrained by a culture will enforce it  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_MQ-ixt5M
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2020-07-03 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1279062475950837762)
- kinda blowing my mind how negative my self-talk was in 2013. and I would say it was "technically correct" at the time, too  very glad I wrote all this stuff down
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2020-08-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1291385810768420866)
- 011: "I want to be rich and famous" isn't really an ambitious thing, not intrinsically. You can get there by forcing yourself to playing other people's games well, and you can find yourself miserable at the end.  Real ambition changes the game altogether  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97wtpfU5wY8
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2020-02-07 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1225720827137495040)
- I also really liked this sex advice column by Nicole from Men’s Health. She was so witty and perceptive and insightful and probably shaped my worldview on seduction and romance quite significantly. (Remember her mentioning she was very into her boyfriend fixing up his guitar amp)
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2018-12-25 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1077530989708992512)
- Blind followers are the fucking worst  Madman + sane ppl = weird guy yelling on sidewalk  Madman + blind followers = genocide https://x.com/NurEshaKhan12/status/924716877611384832
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2017-10-29 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/924717247095980032)
- This tree flowers very rarely - maybe once a year? Maybe less? Feel like I’ve only seen it like this a couple of other times. 😍
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2020-03-31 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1244936926592774144)
- “We’re gonna neutralise a lot of threats before they even happen.”  “Thought the punishment usually came after the crime.”  “We can’t afford to wait that long.”  “Who’s we?”
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2018-10-21 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1053920301833084928)
- 22. I think it’s super cute how much Sierra likes the sun. Little never does this
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2019-05-29 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133537821027840001)
- Building me a cabinet
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2020-02-18 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1229700377911521280)
- 005:  aesthetic resonance is when the cinematic universe of your life is coherent, with callbacks and inside jokes across domains  talismans are objects that represent meaningful stories to you (eg wedding rings). you can make your own talismans  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVtkNDwXpM8
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2020-01-11 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1215916687444172800)
- a good elevator fight scene! buildup of tension, you witness cap assessing the situation. nice move getting his hand stuck, you feel his trapped..ed...ness. kick to the knee, head to the... head. small space used very well
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2019-01-10 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083387581289512960)
- (diablo 2 had such a gorgeous aesthetic that diablo 3 completely dropped the ball on. i'm still mad about this,,, you fuckers)
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2019-02-09 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094212763511975938)
- Molly spends a couple of pages in the preface talking about her own apprehension and resistance in writing this book - something that I realize I ought to do in my own work. Introduce the 🐘!  Interesting bits about gender and film
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2019-11-13 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1194544396428963841)
- #nowreading Moldbug's Unqualified Reservations
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2018-03-24 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/977570750239424512)
- my blog traffic peaked in 2012  in nov 2012 I got more traffic in a month than I did in 2016, 2017 and 2018 combined  why? I used to blog about local politics, and stopped  politics is a hell of a drug  (sadly, I never monetized any of it, lol)
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2019-06-27 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1144190964556111873)
- 53. Breakfast with @sebastmarsh - contempt, summoning demons, libraries, Gandhi, Augustus, navigating culture wars, web forums, older mentors, video games as an introduction to learning experimentation & sense-making, sermons, communities, ambition, “have I played my role well”
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2019-10-15 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1183952294674604032)
- "Intellectually you know that the world isn't a big generic blob– but witnessing the differences is wild. You'll realize you've spent your whole life living w assumptions you've never IDENTIFIED, let alone questioned. This realization changes everything."  https://t.co/hutnnrOiai
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2019-05-19 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1130161180993961985)
- I think a lot about Marilyn Manson’s post-Columbine article in Rolling Stone from 20 years ago: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/columbine-whose-fault-is-it-232759/
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2019-01-29 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090193373422448640)
- 2,900,000+
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2019-01-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1081595680924131328)
- And the cool thing about learning things, when there are infinite options and directions I can go – each decision that I make along the way... is a decision that I made! Every journey of discovery is simultaneously an act of self-discovery. I'm learning about what I care about
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2019-02-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095050424158085121)
- This national trauma is why I had to spend 2 years of my life in uniform (and a week or two every year or so since), it’s why I know how to throw a grenade, disassemble a rifle  You know, the whole “Never Again” thing 🤔 https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082243781905113089?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2019-01-07 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082424818052427776)
- what actually happens when you break the rules of fight club?
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2019-01-05 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1081667843014287360)
- As long as I can remember, I have been parsing information from multiple different sources. My intellectual/psychological/social life has always been one full of diversity, contradictions, and has always required a lot of code-switching https://x.com/visakanv/status/950178328459149312
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2018-08-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1032194581729705985)
- As a friend asked me, teary-eyed over one too many glasses of wine, "Why are fathers so lacking?"
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2018-02-03 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/959750489905668096)
- Where are the others?? Get in losers, we’re building a wholesome, supportive, nurturing environment!! https://x.com/huanwin/status/1013260550699008002
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2018-07-01 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1013260941494849537)
- Bus stop... I've spent so many hours here over the years. The bus arrives, I get on. Yes, I have an unnecessary amount of money in my EZ Link card. It makes me feel like a baller. A public transport baller.
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2017-12-01 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/936421570435624961)
- I'm sitting in Prata Wala on the verge of tears thinking about the brave sacrifices of countless Protoss Templars fighting to protect their homeland
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2017-12-20 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/943461651277213696)
- it's always fascinating to me to think about where young boys get this sort of idea of what coolness is, and how exactly they fudge it https://x.com/Indian_stats/status/875178551171067906
  (resurfaced 2× · 13 likes · 2017-06-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/875235424804917248)
- @MasterTimBlais @liminal_warmth I’ve actually had a GREAT time talking with bots on twitter  I enjoy malnote probably more than 60% of randos outside ingroup
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2021-09-08 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1435467353748238342)
- @alt1na1 when you see grain spilling like that, don’t wait, run immediately
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2021-10-03 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1444478918849753088)
- 30. Webcomics  "We were all stupid and young, just learning to be people."  "We were a bunch of nerds feeling power for the first time."  Featuring Randall (XKCD), Jeph (QC), Zach (SMBC) and others  (h/t @prateekxarora)  https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18295369/webcomics-xkcd-questionable-content-dinosaur-comics-90s-internet-social-media
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-04-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114861210288001024)
- amazing sidequest- a prisoner on death row is convinced that he’s a messiah. corporate studio lady on the left sees an opportunity to make $$ selling his live-streamed death (from inside his brain). I have no idea where this is going but I’m engrossed
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2020-12-16 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1339284599369699329)
- trying to figure out an optimal linear path that will be the core thread of the book. I know no path will be perfect but I think there's a certain narrative resonance that I haven't quite figured out yet... will probably map it alongside a classic hero's journey
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2020-12-25 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1342451387863449602)
- keynes does seem a little dismissive of newton's interests in alchemy, and I find myself in agreement with a Costa Rican physics professor on Quora (god, I love the Internet)– that Newton wasn't an occultist himself, but rather looking for coded clues   https://t.co/DmCAKG8gYm
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2020-06-06 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269211291391909888)
- following guthrie govan's advice of "just play the melodies that you sing" has improved my musicianship/musicality on the guitar more in a couple of weeks than several years worth of noodling around aimlessly and unproductively
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2020-07-28 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1288191683801145345)
- d'aw 🥰  (David Bowie with his musical hero Little Richard)
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-06-19 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141337387903012865)
- "Spiders can sense the Earth’s electric field, and use it to launch themselves into the air."
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-10-18 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1185130471174205441)
- Zeratul of the Dark Templar (the outcasts), realizes this. Rather than kill Artanis (which he could, but it would solve nothing, really), he sacrifices his own life so that Artanis might see the truth  my life,,, for Aiur
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-02-21 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1098502720732880896)
- Anyway this is more of a tentative “I’m trying to make sense of this” thread rather than a “listen to me I know what I’m talking about” thread. I am likely wrong about a bunch of stuff
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2020-01-21 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1219521883344756736)
- 4. a handful of well-chosen words can change your life https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068467783963299840?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-02-07 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093434416355889152)
- Here are the first 2mins from RoboCop [1987] – Hugo Martin, the creative director of Doom [2016] talked about how this was an inspiration for Doom - conveying an incredible amount of information *immediately*. You know he's going to be a badass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z8tQqZG8gI
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-09-17 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1173989014128361472)
- @vgr One must imagine Sisyphus LOLing
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2018-04-17 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/986076972139798528)
- storytime:  i'm 15 years old, in secondary school  every am, the school assembles for flag raising  before it starts, kids obviously talk with one another  discipline master: "visakan veerasamy! you like to talk a lot is it!"  school laughs  1,500+ boys, I get singled out  me_irl
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2018-09-25 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044543979256143872)
- I think there's an element of risk-taking involved here. a groove is groovy because it feels like it's going to fall apart, but it doesn't. real artists take risks. if it's entirely safe, if it's entirely expected, if it's entirely familiar, then it doesn't bop
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-03-16 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106951849402220545)
- Alright I’m gonna be in SF all day today! It feels colder than usual so I’m improvising and wearing *both* a hoodie and a jacket. Gonna take the BART over to meet an old friend from work. I’m starting to get a feel for this, recognising the landmarks
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-04-28 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1122564069125492741)
- @emilyca5 @aquaroar yup exactly. I think about this guy a lot and relate to him a bit
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2018-10-25 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1055387263687770113)
- Bexel is a South Korean company established in 1978. It's a fun and interesting challenge to try and learn more about them, since their Wikipedia page is practically empty. Looking at their site, they also make power banks, TVs, hoverboards, electric bikes and scooters https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094970554849738753
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-04-19 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1119122848713281539)
- teenagers make a lot more sense when you realize they’re all on drugs all the time, served up hot from their gonads
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-05-18 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1129636992717733888)
- Post-run thought: It's v important to curate your life. I've always known this intellectually but I'm not so confident about it in my bones
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2017-08-17 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/898318049882677249)
- I've been thinking about talismans recently – everything sacred becomes sacred because people deem it such. You can decide to give objects meaning. It's not *entirely* arbitrary – there's an art to it, the stories you tell with and about your objects should resonate with you
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-05-20 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1130434303475691520)
- a calamity of contrarians a carnival of contrarians a casino of contrarians a chagrin of contrarians a choir of contrarians a clairvoyance of contrarians a clustering of contrarians a coincidence of contrarians a complication of contrarians a corollary https://x.com/hipcityreg/status/1111053067275943936?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-03-28 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1111407832341995522)
- I would go further and say that subconsciously, y’all don’t actually want AOC to to go away. You actually want a big spectacle, and a big spectacle needs big stars. The media wants it, the two-bit twitter pundits want it, and we’re going to get it
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-02-25 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1100023694364037120)
- In a way, “self-censorship” can also be “fold the hands that you don’t think you’ll win with, so you can hit harder when it matters” https://x.com/visakanv/status/1010375629512904704
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-01-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086141732343840768)
- @emmalsalinas Take lots of random walks
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2019-01-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087057595037245440)
- 17. Trying to control other people’s sex lives is one of the most counter-productive activities imaginable. The laypersons who play this game for free are suckers. The people who profit from it are basically sociopathic. One of the dumbest things holding us back as a species
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2018-09-24 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044083318227054593)
- Replaying Mass Effect: Andromeda, as a dude this time. (I have a habit of playing as female protagonists where possible.) I was disappointed by the game in several ways so I’m not sure why I’m replaying it 😂 but the heart wants what it wants
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2018-12-10 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072173738144129121)
- I think I’m either the affogato or jager-bomb of humans
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2018-08-13 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1029101873616236549)
- There is some nuance in the space between having a preference and articulating it. Lots of dudes are utterly incapable of walking this not-that-fine line. These dudes are about as tender and sensitive as a bull in a china shop, so it’s a pretty good litmus test actually https://x.com/mirosoms/status/1021793471835721728
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2018-07-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022767749355855872)
- @vgr i also live with the fear that stupid groups of people could casually ruin my life 🤔
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2017-10-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/915445156144308225)
- Another word for "market" is "bazar", from French/Latin. So... a synonym for 'marketer' should be 'bazarista'. Which I think is way sexier.
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2017-01-11 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/819106098145677312)
- Call Me Maybe is one of the best songs ever written
  (resurfaced 2× · 12 likes · 2017-11-29 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/935814636212908033)
- this was in 2010, so iPhones did already exist, Spotify and YouTube also existed. It takes time for the old order to be replaced. Would be curious to read a good play-by-play of the transition
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2024-03-11 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1767038602268303461)
- @silly_shishu A mix of iOS notes app, Twitter, Google docs, Roam
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2022-09-18 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1571507519985684481)
- In every blade of grass there is a greater guru than any man that ever lived and I think that’s beautiful
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2022-08-09 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1557140990988656640)
- @drewcoffman I wish I had more screens lol I just have a lot of material to work with
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2022-07-11 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1546545992710778880)
- more classic 2011 visa  sentences kinda overwrought  but fundamentally the same mf
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2022-01-10 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1480611539014938624)
- I remember thinking this about Lemmy too https://x.com/deletedwert/status/1390833469106888706
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2021-05-08 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1390991223003828225)
- Everybody's Fool is also 🔥, and the music video is really something  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhC1pI76Rqo
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-09-04 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1169141826730823681)
- Thucydides claimed that Pericles was basically so persuasive (and his Funeral Oration proves it, IMO) that people esteemed him so highly that he led them as "first citizen".  Plutarch may have had a slightly different opinion
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2021-07-31 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1421423653980307459)
- Now find myself thinking that you become (your own personal) Beyoncé not so much to the degree of work you are able to put in, but the amount of abuse you are able to manage and put up with https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082398186294063104?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-01-08 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082782802288889856)
- - Korean battery market = US$125m - majority of batteries are imported - Bexel has ~25% market share vs Energizer ~40% - Digital door lock co iRevo ships their product with Bexel batteries  I enjoy this sort of wholesome local content 😍 there's a certain homely vibe to it
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-04-19 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1119127089666387968)
- I'm trying to think of the first video game UIs that really drew me in. Command & Conquer: Red Alert is coming to mind. Let's do some screenshots from a skirmish video from YouTube (god, I love that I can do this in *seconds*). It starts like this. Mobile base, fog of war
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2018-07-30 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1023906637566767104)
- It's time for Day 2 of the Alphabet World Cup!  First, a review of the brackets & the results  each letter was paired against its mirror opposite across the center of the keyboard (Q vs P, F vs H, etc)  As there are 13 letters left, we'll start with a 3-way between the 3 weakest https://x.com/visakanv/status/1243796705276907520
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2020-03-29 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1244165508921880576)
- I find myself using Google Docs a lot more recently – there's something about the combination of using the Table of Contents feature and the Page Break (cmd+enter) feature that makes it much more useful to me than before
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2020-03-19 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1240572648813289472)
- The wife was oddly delighted when I presented her with a bundle of sex organs. Human mating rituals are weird.
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2016-08-16 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/765338538674049024)
- Returned to Cafe Buenos Aires (where Mason brought me on my first day) because I liked the coffee and loved the person running it. This breakfast croissant is 😩 so good
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-04-26 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1121814486644477952)
- airplane seat etiquette tweet
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2020-02-14 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1228299170777186306)
- @fortelabs it's fun in a high-trust context, but would be abhorrent otherwise
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-08-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1165640338737786880)
- When Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama landed on the Malabar coast (present day Kerala) in 1498, his men reportedly yelled “For Christ and spices!”
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-10-03 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1179642013391577088)
- first we have a short exchange of texts – they tell me the basics abt what they're working on, what they'd like help with, and I figure out whether I can be useful to them. If I can't, I'll let them know + maybe even refer them to someone else  https://x.com/roshanonline/status/1173996333906006017?s=20
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-09-17 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1173997180178198528)
- I have 287 followers; by end of 2012 I want 1,000! Do you think I could do it?
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2012-01-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/153531517258317824)
- Take GOT for instance - the killing of Ned Stark isn’t just a novel event slapped on for shock value - it’s something that fundamentally alters the DNA of the whole story, and reveals the shape of the fictional universe. (IMO the MCU should kill Tony Stark for this same reason)
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2018-07-09 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1016230548593782785)
- It’s Iike a magic giant alien garden anus of greenery and splendor
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-07-01 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145631873885859841)
- Enjoying a leisurely walk back after the movie. The weather is so lovely, ya’ll are blessed
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-04-26 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1121912759388528640)
- @ProperOpinion 🥰!! Here is a good starting point https://www.notion.so/visakanv/Threads-1a6ed25cf06e49e388a303903d597b73
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-07-08 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1148330122732118016)
- Oh no, I have,,, a curiosity
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-02-13 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095596140915871744)
- 33. "Gansu is poor for a reason. On one side, you have the massive freezing Tibetan Plateau. On the other side, you have the deadly Gobi Desert.  God doesn’t want you to live here. But you insisted."  Fascinating, detailed post:  https://t.co/Cmy3FPLzpR
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-06-02 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135153786324889600)
- Uber-ing into SF for a meetup at Dolores Park - some of these ads really crack me up
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-04-27 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1122252967325777920)
- *lights cigarette*  everything... leads to death https://x.com/kunalb11/status/1112228173905723393
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-03-31 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1112273401131880450)
- Singapore got a little too obsessed with green tea recently and it shows
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-03-11 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1105060765952696321)
- 17. a recurring thought I've had is that dystopian authors never prepared us for how cute the end times were going to be  if you want to picture the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face *with a catchy tune playing in the background*, forever
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-01-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088866226535686144)
- yes https://x.com/stpstpstpstpstp/status/1093320489429159936
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2019-02-08 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093776094551957504)
- @jamespoulos @Brett_Fujioka @Aelkus @sonyaellenmann @gwern "Never before in Anime did we have a teenage “bad guy” that was drafted from a farm, put into a war machine and died calling out to his mother."  https://t.co/TA4lO0VOSE
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2018-05-25 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000062375385448449)
- @autotrnslucence @michael_nielsen Also maybe some added context is that I was born and raised in Singapore - during WW2 the Japanese invaded and introduced their own currency, which quickly became trash. Learning about the human cost of that left me quite shook from a young age
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2018-11-26 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066977896051302401)
- How I manage my bookmarks (at the moment) https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074028558157135873
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2018-12-15 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074028713862324224)
- Watching Raees, a Bollywood movie loosely based on the life of Abdul Latif - a bootlegger in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. It’s a Narcos-esque story, a troubling clusterfuck of money, alcohol, prohibition, laws, enforcement, violence, corruption, politics, gangs, community, society
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2018-11-28 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1067684690482487297)
- I'm thinking about Supernormal Stimuli again  we are already cyborgs, reality is already augmented, and very virtual  I find myself incorporating a sort of techno-shamanistic perspective  also thinking of words like "malware", "infected", "distorted", "glitch"
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2018-08-06 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026361069248249857)
- @andreisavu @vgr I naturally behaved in more interesting ways in the past when I had $50 in the bank than now when I have $xx,xxx. It's the mortgage, it's the spouse, the adjacent possibility of even maybe having kids. you don't need $ to be interesting per se, you need fearlessness/recklessness
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2018-03-28 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/978808108779692032)
- my goal in life is to make friends with tech/startup people internationally and then confuse them by swearing in hokkien
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2013-03-19 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/313908900040687616)
- Here's what I think I've been leaving out: polite company generally steers away from excessive scrutiny of power and capital. To be charitable, most of this might be because it makes sense for each individual to focus primarily on what they can directly control: themselves
  (resurfaced 2× · 11 likes · 2017-12-15 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/941699801535488000)
- Why do they do this? This is the important question, and it is barely addressed, although it gets revealed in little details if you pay attention. Hui here is showing off a handphone he cannot afford, and is eagerly condescending to his colleague who spends less $
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2020-10-15 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1316804020246204418)
- @wholebodyprayer 1. yikes hope you're ok  2. play tetris. i'm serious. download one on your phone, whichever
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2021-10-12 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1447823173320278017)
- @no_im_bk assuming no budget constraints, the passing of the torch of human consciousness from one golden age of humanity to another – athens, baghdad, venice, florence, london, etc. from cicero thru montaigne. maybe through the frame story of a curious nerd reading about his heroes
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2023-01-27 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1618979153382113281)
- I think this is my favorite Banksy piece
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2019-06-23 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142877315199713280)
- part of why i have the audience I do (without external boost) is that my tweets/writing get inside the OODA loop of any discourse I participate in.  Ie, my riffs and taking points are the covid of my community, lol. I’ll get to everyone eventually
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2022-01-12 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1481148970223411200)
- @Bourdain one of my all time favs and top recommends, Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud  totally expanded my mind re: thinking about visual language, and I think even art and communication, fundamentally  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRk-TyTrcn0&feature=youtu.be
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2019-11-22 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1197794139850465281)
- Fascinating story of a bus driver in NYC’s Bronx who drove to Florida for the heck of it – and people cheered! This would’ve been late 40s or early 50s. Kinda reminds me of Forrest Gump. Need to know more about this
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2022-01-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1486642187819372544)
- William Penn (1644-1718) son of english admiral who served under Cromwell caught smallpox as a kid was Pepys' neighbor got in trouble at oxford for heretical politics, parents sent him to Paris pacifist was imprisoned several times wrote book titled "No Cross, No Crown" https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145349184779767808
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2021-11-09 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1458036529058574339)
- Today would've been the 100th birthday of Goh Keng Swee, who played a founding role in many of Singaporean institutions, including the SAF, Jurong Industrial Estate, EDB, DBS, MAS, Jurong Bird Park, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. A true OG, loved and respected by all
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2018-10-06 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048482652284567552)
- @meekaale 🔥  I earnestly look forward to decades of your body of work 🙏🏾
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2021-07-26 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1419616103676858368)
- recently got recommended this funny old video from the onion from 2008  it's interesting because it was a full 7 years before gay marriage was fully legalized at the federal level in the US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aotlEpmAFVQ
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2021-05-28 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1398297579482324993)
- 26. Fuck You and Die: An Oral History of Something Awful  "He said he was going to kill himself if he wasn't made a moderator."  "Oh, jeez, I'm managing a small city here and they're all whiny babies."   (h/t @revlismas)   https://t.co/gtDT3ENoLo
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2019-03-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1103688183986831363)
- putting together your suggestions here in my public roam, thx  https://roamresearch.com/#/app/visakanv-public/page/IAfI_5S9h
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2020-06-29 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1277624413106532352)
- @Malcolm_Ocean @Conaw I think of my web of threads, when intertwingled with other people's web of threads, as a MIND CITY. A place that's multi-dimensional, explorable, non-linear... a place where it can be *fun* to get *lost*  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133066996797468672
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2019-12-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1200993747892203521)
- @wilks_isaac fashion https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2020-02-02 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1223808394458361856)
- thinking now about how people used to constantly mock Justin Bieber – a *child* – for being insufficiently masculine. He's now IMO more masculine-presenting than most of the dudes who were mocking him. In fact it looks like he's been in prison – which was how he said he felt
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2019-04-09 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1115530211250933760)
- @TheAnnaGat I wish all our 2009 selves could hang out  cc @made_in_cosmos @maybegray
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2019-11-19 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1196825339688706048)
- Prague https://x.com/archpng/status/1012590998734671873
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2019-06-11 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1138326228258045952)
- Thought: The word "marketer" is rooted in "market", merch, merchant, mercenary, Mercury, god of traders and thieves...
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2017-01-11 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/819105427279351808)
- I think there are also contexts where increasing model accuracy is disincentivized or even frowned upon because it *seems* like a selfish, sociopathic pursuit
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2019-10-26 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1187981964768235520)
- aoc zuck tweet
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2019-10-24 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1187219874084347904)
- Family of goats got somewhere to be
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2018-12-04 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1069865331546501122)
- 6. What’s up nightmares!!! Very cool, very fun!! It’s my turn now, I’m coming for u
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2019-07-13 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1150179227108401152)
- @lunavis @literalbanana @djmicrobeads My personal definition of contempt is “that which is poisonous” - ie if you are able to have negative feelings towards something and channel it into something healthy, it doesn’t count as contempt. This is an important distinction we need to have
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2019-05-20 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1130421252001165312)
- Kopi with @otisfunkmeyer - spirituality, dance, communities, politics, Bitcoin, YouTube/Instagram, digital nomads, Pmarca, Naval, Sivers, navigating change, Saigon, 1000-year-games, lucid dreams, jinxing it, first movers, things most people don’t see, meta-heuristics, how to live
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2019-02-23 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1099247178646605824)
- I used to be really into Trebuchet MS for some reason and I still recognize it in the wild. The g and the & are big giveaways. Also the V and W. I suppose I was very into the sharp V
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2019-03-11 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1105064777703780352)
- american friends, if you ever doubt the american-ness of your asian-american countrymen, please let the rest of asia put that doubt to rest  asian-americans are sooo american 😂  then of course there's this guy
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2018-12-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076914329952210945)
- @HundredthIdiot Here’s what’s interesting to consider, on retrospect: an asshole “being an asshole to everyone equally” will still likely hurt women and minorities more, because of the way the social game is rigged. If you dox both men & women for fun, the women are the ones who get rape threats
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2018-08-11 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1028112357573025795)
- A list of 500+ of my Twitter threads, using a cool script written by @mwichary, executed for me by the lovely @sharanvkaur https://t.co/AZvVY0DJqK
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2018-11-29 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068212403228176384)
- yes! this hits a spot I couldn't quite reach by myself  https://x.com/anxiaostudio/status/1071834558193065985
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2018-12-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071845279857405952)
- I feel like there should be a better way to talk about stereotypically dark and cliche things without coming across as cynical
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2016-06-15 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/742922483511103488)
- I’ve rewatched this video about Megaman X’s genius design many, many times... and I’m going to watch it again now, and break it down https://x.com/visakanv/status/829914243688390656?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2018-12-09 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071626705083625472)
- Watching The Secret Life Of Pets. Expected cute digital animals, got that. Did NOT expect an exploration of the complications of armed violent resistance, ingroup policing and political organization. “You go out without a leash, you’ll get caught by a net. Or worse.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2018-08-19 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1031155888101314560)
- There really is something interestingly different about Indian English and communication norms. “Maybe you should read this” typically comes across as condescending or passive-aggressive to me, but this seems to be a sort of cultural difference https://x.com/airtelindia/status/1009271481912758272
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2018-06-22 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1009993694047453185)
- If you appreciate this well this will even shape your writing - because you'll write things anticipating the searches of future-you
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2017-08-17 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/898037271718313985)
- Critically unasked questions: What do you see in the mirror? Why? What do you believe to be true? Why? What do you want out of life? Why?
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2014-11-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/536365766661005313)
- Just discovered @vigilismdesign – love his work and aesthetic
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2018-05-16 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/996624856492883968)
- I like to think of it as binge-watching past seasons of current affairs so you can get caught up to speed on wtf is going on https://x.com/ckhonson/status/932677728423239681
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2017-11-20 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/932678888773246977)
- EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHILL THE FUCK OUT
  (resurfaced 2× · 10 likes · 2012-10-15 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/257794521985867776)
- @drojasug books I recommend starting with are the Heath Brothers' Made To Stick, Cialdini's Influence, Ogilvy's Confessions of an Advertising Man. Beyond that you'd have to get more specific about the problems you're trying to solve. Also, some notes here: https://t.co/WtevJhCIa6
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2022-11-24 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1595836582531301377)
- @vgr One of the GOAT Quora answers was by a navy admiral on how to run the floating city https://x.com/quora/status/501790627818790912
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2022-08-14 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1558906317984567296)
- being afraid of being cancelled etc is not exactly a new thing, the fear of the authority of anonymous public opinion is decades old, probably centuries, probably millennia  and when people are anxious and despairing it creates a vacuum that invites fascism
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2022-01-27 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1486647815497404419)
- zooming ahead a little bit – by 2015, Marie was already featured in TIME's most influential 100 people. The book's already been published by this point, and it has a hardcore niche of extremely obsessive fans who say it actually did change their life
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2021-09-10 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1436397089987051521)
- to do that I'd have to clean this shit out... sigh ok let's do it
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2021-05-28 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1398346031104892928)
- 2. "Thinking in terms of national economies smears over the economic facts. Once we take off these lenses, we can see that the world consists not of developed and poor nations, but of dynamic and poor regions."
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2021-05-11 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1391986687119532034)
- Relevant bit from Game Maker's Toolkit. Walt Disney called these "Weenies"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k70_jvVOcG0
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2020-04-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1253691503823609861)
- ok done for now  probably doesn't make sense to other people but it cleared things up quite a bit for me
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2021-03-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1373630582467403777)
- @Saurya Tho i understand if people dont believe me. theyve likely never met anyone like me and have no way to make sense of me except by comparison to what they have known
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2021-02-27 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1365511775114854403)
- @TrevMcKendrick This isn't Bezos's memo but Steve Yegge's retelling of Bezos's ~2002 memo, which is both entertaining and insightful  https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2019-02-19 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1097750082609238016)
- @ollybot_redux @sonyasupposedly I would retitle "friendly ambitious nerd" to something along the lines of How To Win At Life. I would be writing "How To Grow Twitter Audience" instead of "Introspect". I would be posting pics of myself with hot girls on main and peddling dating advice and selling that
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2020-12-25 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1342596340010766336)
- @infiniturtle the real end-game:
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2020-05-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1258264377402068993)
- The way the game treats and portrays Yennefer is very cool to witness. She is obviously attractive and intelligent- and she’s also *very* powerful. Even walking behind her I find her presence to be one of strength, which feels like a slightly odd thing to say
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2020-04-05 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1246945361077219329)
- zentelskelin? yentl zeppelin? zattle neckskin?
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2020-04-26 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1254420616028884993)
- Half-serious: If someone shared a v funny meme that had Googlers laughing so hard they couldn't work for a week, I think Pichai shd fire him
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2017-08-11 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/896067204818493440)
- @Treehouseriots Natural, tho I did get it trimmed a few days ago. It’s different every few minutes tbh
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2020-03-10 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1237202195415617536)
- The pursuit of happiness is a self-defeating trap. Pursue excitement and amusement instead! One must imagine Sisyphus LOL-ing  https://t.co/IvmKylubTd
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2018-12-16 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074125335577321472)
- right here
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2020-01-25 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1220991129702653954)
- Amos Yee being grabbed and restrained in a hug by some random stranger, probably another weirdo  he keeps saying "help me", but nobody helps him  most of the public does not give a fuck and will not intervene on your behalf, it's a painful but important lesson you have to learn
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2019-06-13 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139117230048727041)
- Rewatching for self-soothing purposes. Art is so important, it’s especially obvious at 4:24 AM. I can feel all my anti-suicide systems and defenses coming online and injecting me with gratitude and “how can I use this for good and serve others” https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087706402879991808?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2019-01-29 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090345433182855168)
- Missing Anthony Bourdain this morning https://x.com/visakanv/status/1005062282001330177
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2019-01-09 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082794588463521792)
- abuse is always a concern. to reduce the potential for abuse, a person should be able to eliminate undesirable QTs from their tweets. Or maybe toggle “only show QTs from mutuals”
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2019-06-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1137024044706852864)
- Also when sth becomes ubiquitous, it becomes invisible. The Information Superhighway is no longer a commute. We're everywhere, all at once.
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2015-07-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/625506531501457408)
- Some flowers along my walk earlier. The colours are so lush. Flowers in SG are pretty too but the contrast is rarely turned up so high 😂 I find myself thinking, this must surely influence the visual moodboard of California designers. Thinking of the iPhone X
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2019-04-26 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1121819308194013185)
- having a game's environment change in reaction to a player's actions is a very satisfying thing
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2019-02-15 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096332600627494912)
- Assholes are malicious & contemptuous  Bandits seek to extract value at cost to others (can be polite while they do it)  Clowns court attention at any cost  And fools are the most dangerous, just plain stupid and unpredictable, causing unexpected damage for no discernible reason
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2019-03-12 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1105471806603849728)
- Rick again with the brazen double-standards; this is a recurring theme throughout the show. His abuse is staring you right in the face from episode 1
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2018-08-12 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1028665106568163328)
- 5/ I've been thinking about "safe spaces" a lot this year. The TLDR is – safe spaces are ideally nurturing spaces, not coddling spaces. They're dojos and gyms, not comfort zones. If Earth wasn't a safe space (the sun is a deadly laser!), we'd all be dead. https://t.co/OynOHoyE1r
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2017-12-30 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/947111148217827330)
- I have watched this video over a hundred times by now and I cry almost every time
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2018-12-17 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074728933071802369)
- nerd lady friends, can you suggest some cartoons and anime(s) that you liked growing up, and/or like now? my wife never got into any of it and she's kinda curious but not sure where to start
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2019-01-08 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082480178297622528)
- But if you search “normal woman underwear ad”, you get all these interesting tropes and framing that you rarely ever see men in. Somebody pay me and my techbro buddies to laugh and hug in our underwear, boys need to feel empowered in their undies too 🧐
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2018-06-19 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1008907105372291072)
- How it's possible to paint a dishonest picture by telling selective truths, and how we all do it because narrative bias and selection bias – and this applies to every person you meet, every book on your shelf, and most of your own internal dialogue https://x.com/visakanv/status/712967735873896450
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2018-08-07 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026870075049955328)
- Precisely my thoughts.  "Apple is an echo-chamber!!"  Steve Jobs: Damn fucking straight. If you don't like it you can fuck off https://x.com/Ctzn5/status/896329090864689153
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2017-08-12 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/896329386923769856)
- This feels like a good place to start a “good questions” thread, which is slightly different in spirit from “insightful threads” https://x.com/roybahat/status/1038986277981310977
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2018-09-11 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039435569720262656)
- How Megaman X teaches the player how to play, within the game itself. Rewatched it dozens of at this point. This isn’t just about games, it’s about design, sensitivity to the player/audience, and it’s great storytelling https://x.com/visakanv/status/829914243688390656?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2018-08-06 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026279736194940928)
- Being alive is such a goddamn miracle, why do we have to spend it obsessed about rituals, social standings, perceived slights?
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2013-12-04 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/408213030124539904)
- Decided to stop for breakfast. This is how we roll in the heartlands of Singapore
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2017-11-29 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/935666103828725760)
- from 2015 https://t.co/AupXoKG8lT
  (resurfaced 2× · 9 likes · 2018-04-13 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/984800487064006656)
- 53.
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2023-10-14 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1713258044883448092)
- @joodaloop far too many judah tweets focusing on mediocrity
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2022-11-24 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1595831367870615552)
- was rewatching and I really enjoyed this scene (which is a payoff to a whole movie's worth of buildup)  "We don't want anything from the world, just a place in everyone's hearts"  interesting to compare and contrast with other nations' soft power / patriotic attempts
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2019-01-28 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089822128625446912)
- How do you focus on building your ability to focus, when you're bad at focusing?
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2017-06-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/873695504982351872)
- The Dutch VOC systematically slaughtered the Bandanese people, and sold them into slavery. The population was reduced from 15,000 to 600.  https://t.co/18IHxRmO8i
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2019-10-03 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1179644539708903424)
- @TheAnnaGat @commandodev mood lighting
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2021-03-05 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1367869653834371080)
- something feels slightly surprising about how many celebrities warhol photographed  (he also took more than a handful of pictures of men performing sex acts on each other, but I'll leave that to you to discover 😅)
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2019-10-30 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1189485653911719936)
- As a scientist, Sagan speculated freely, sometimes wildly, and outraged his more cautious colleagues. A few regarded him as a charlatan. Some of his closer mentors (Gerard Kuiper, and Harold Urey) nursed serious doubts about his sense of scientific responsibility.
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-11-28 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1067765876865196032)
- there was so little video content for streaming in 2005 that we all watched this for the full 5 minutes and enjoyed it  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1LZVmn3p3o&feature=youtu.be
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2020-06-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1268819205035405313)
- @TheAnnaGat My current quick-grab shelf:
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2020-05-19 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1262828124397428736)
- Thing I really enjoy about my coffeeshop is how diverse the lunchtime crowd is. Soldiers, teachers (you can tell by the lanyards, but also the teacher fashion and body language), engineers, retirees. In an hour or so, students from theschools will start showing up
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2019-02-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1098073654879895552)
- @RoamResearch woot I merged all those nodes. I realize that 100 essays per node is too many, so I'm splitting them into 50/node. when I'm done I should have 20 big nodes (0, 50, 100, 150, etc)  these snapshots feel more "correct"; I now roam (lmfao) around my graph to look for "rightness"
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2020-01-09 · Programming & Code · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1215145238357897216)
- There are definitely many bright, thoughtful kids born into hideous circumstances and forced to make decisions the privileged among us can never imagine. T-Bone seems (seemed?) like a great kid caught up in circumstances beyond his control. It's really sad
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-01-28 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/957579824804982784)
- @sonyasupposedly @vgr [lights cigarette] art is the most humanitarian thing there is
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2020-01-31 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1223131173292892160)
- @dauntlust @taintedavenue america:
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2019-10-19 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1185526687657709570)
- “Roaring wave of fear swept through the greatest city in the world”  “Foaming tumult round the railway stations”  “Police... railway... losing coherency... guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2019-10-15 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1184080263401234433)
- Now here's something I think is criminally unknown – check out this 2018 remake/remix by Theodora and Ginny Bloop! It only has ~500 views on YouTube!! IT'S SO GOOD!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkGCz4Ojq4
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2019-10-06 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1180784258496880645)
- The single best improvement I've made as a writer over the past 5 years has been to write better titles, headers and subheaders
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2017-06-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/878678706092363776)
- Friends like @TheAnnaGat ask the best why’s
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2019-06-27 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1144076092153577472)
- The common feature in all of my favourite games is character development - the protagonist and their teammates come together, help each other out, learn and grow together, and have each other’s backs. It’s a powerful, inspiring message that I’ve tried to internalize myself
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-05-04 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/992486265604866048)
- 9. every word is a roughly-hewn representation of an idea https://x.com/visakanv/status/862904419658027008?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2019-02-07 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093435855266504704)
- I've been finding that it's often most interesting to start with "so who are the people who made this" – and in this case, it turns out that Logitech was founded in Lausanne, Switzerland. These are Daniel Borel (Swiss), Pierluigi Zappacosta (Italian) and Giacomo Marini (Italian)
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2019-05-16 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1128910331315490817)
- when elon musk said "it's very hard to turn it off", i really felt that
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-12-27 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078431377865957377)
- 1958 – JK Galbraith described USA as “the affluent society”  -9.5% of households had air conditioning -4% had dishwashers -<15% had >1 car  1980, Reagan ran and won on #MAGA, sense of economic suffering  -5x aircon -8x dishwashers -3x >1 car  People genuinely felt worse off
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-04-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988967426191589376)
- Assuming good faith: Looking back, I think Hillary was tired. I think she felt that she deserved to win, having invested decades of her life into her goal. The people around her believed this too – that it was “her turn”. They were sloppy & complacent https://x.com/hillaryclinton/status/631538115514007553?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-07-01 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1013314935143653377)
- @pmarca when beiber followed the angel list founder, the latter got besieged by angry girls wanting to know what he had that they didn't
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2014-03-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/445396729072852992)
- @vgr I really enjoy this Alan Watts bit where he describes a friend telling him something like "How do you do, as for me, I have now abandoned Satori altogether and I am now trying to get as attached to as many things as possible"
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-12-16 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074210000724086784)
- Do you ever jolt awake with a super vivid idea? This one hit me like a bolt. I can’t be the first person to think of this, I’m sure. So I go looking... and I haven’t yet found exactly what I’m looking for.  (Content warning, obviously.)
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-12-15 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074075871122620416)
- *deep breath* sigh yeah okay  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042771248869138432
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-09-25 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044625336653074432)
- 
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-10-12 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1050776550113599489)
- 111. tactical serrupu https://x.com/da_realdaniel/status/1050420768725712896?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-10-12 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1050673289310261250)
- I think a lot about SG Police Force's rebrand. I'm not a fan. I must admit that the bold diagonal lines are very strong, evocative visuals – that's genius, because it's so simple, memorable and powerful – but the typography and metal plating feel _very_ ROBOCOP and that's creepy
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-06-15 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1007626757275451392)
- I am a big fan of my cats' strange friendship
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-04-01 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/980480513193295872)
- this is now basically a "take a little they put you in jail, take a lot and they make you a king" thread
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-06-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1010434219372249088)
- @nianymue All of these are bad
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2017-12-02 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/936878785114267648)
- @decision_spark @farnamstreet Context: This was in 1966, a year after Singapore gained independence, with the memory and consequences of war still very fresh and tangible. He was trying to persuade Principals to get their teachers to take their jobs more seriously
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2018-04-14 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/984994837584723968)
- @ramit fun: I spent about 3-4 years writing "sleep more" and "review your shit" in my journals without making much of a dent in either  *facepalm*
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2017-07-05 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/882692406738644992)
- @ValaAfshar @illacertus @jimcramer Benjamin Franklin had something similar to say:
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2017-03-27 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/846367987586125824)
- A phrase that's coming to me is "learning how to take direction". The goal is to be self-directed in a healthy way. How do you learn that?
  (resurfaced 2× · 8 likes · 2017-08-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/898344384604680192)
- description of an ex-Congressman clinging on to former glory, similar to "I used to be an adventurer like you", "I coulda been a contender", reminds me of Steve Jobs' closing quote in the Playboy interview about the challenge of growing obsolete with grace
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2022-08-18 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1560084762928500736)
- I have a vague suspicion that Shaw may have been a better correspondent than playwright or novelist  he was a talented pamphleteer - a blogger, basically – inconsistent & controversial  he wrote over 250,000 letters, of ~10% have survived  he wrote to HG Wells and GK Chesterton
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2021-01-09 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347916548699082753)
- This ad was also kinda interesting in an archetypal games ppl play sorta way  play-doh: sculpt and build, 🏗 , magician archetype? nerf gun: violence, warrior archetype ⚔️ dice: gambling, chance monopoly: conquest, control, king archetype mlp: kinship? lover archetype
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2022-06-09 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1534843038664577024)
- the madman did it again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_mb04IyDAo
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2022-05-27 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1530236275391102976)
- cinemas were a huge deal when they first became a thing
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-09-19 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042481713593561090)
- Was at Suntec City recently for a meetup and took an interesting video - when the sun is behind you, you can see the fountains create a rainbow in real time 🌈. Looks cooler IRL but it still shows on camera
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2019-11-23 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1198138036032159744)
- 24. C# minor, trying a simple melody/motif thing. It’s only three notes but now it’s kind of in my head
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2021-03-18 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1372544168724066304)
- when I started blogging I had 5-10 hits a day and like one comment a week telling me to give up/not bother. 30 weeks in I'm getting 500/day
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2011-03-29 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/52812989123936258)
- @meekaale pls don’t be mean to my friends ❤️
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2020-12-29 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1343848394213609478)
- our education systems train us to be interchangeable, not indispensable
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2012-10-18 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/259029491513438208)
- "Strive to be prolific." Letter To A Young Songwriter: http://t.co/KpaTruDwX9
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2014-09-09 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/509182885027258368)
- @vgr to riff off of john cleese, fun is the puncturing of pompous, self-important solemnity with humor  source [2 min]: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x16iig4
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2019-01-10 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083229790675525633)
- #nowwatching Crash Course mythology - really excited to discover this, myths were fascinating to me as a child and I’ve been meaning to revisit them as an adult for quite some time but I’ve been procrastinating on that. Let’s go
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-04-15 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/985377205424279552)
- Da Guy Stay Alone By Himself God Punish Da Guy God Punish Da Snake  God Tell Moses What He Gotta Do Moses Tell God "I No Can"
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2019-02-18 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1097381174962380800)
- searchin' and tweetin' and makin' friends till i die 🏄🏾‍♂️
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2019-02-11 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095054535825879040)
- seeing like a shaman + pretending I'm not home
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2019-05-16 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1128973700043173888)
- I think subtweets are good
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2019-03-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101489799959998464)
- Day three! Here are three Berkeley cats I met yesterday. They seem to possess higher social status than other cats I am familiar with in other parts of the world.  Like, all cats judge you, obviously, but these look like they might even ask management to have you “dealt with”
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2019-04-26 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1121786437244833792)
- I used to be amused when the crowd at JFDI (an incubator/coworking type space downstairs from my office) would get weirdly, awkwardly, uncomfortably clustered because of the placement of the bar and the food along the entrance. I still have pics from 2015 😂. Many ways to solve
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-10-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052589858428837889)
- There’s a common criticism of bollywood films and other forms of mainstream pop culture for being too formulaic, too predictable. I think this criticism is too broad (and ironically, itself too formulaic and predictable). IMO is real value in the eternal, universal stories here
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-12-09 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071689053957906432)
- I once persuaded a bunch of my colleagues to try vertical monitors. I still use + highly recommend it
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-11-11 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061611135516860417)
- multi-temporality – using imagination to craft your own reality by manipulating how information flows in your environment
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2019-03-07 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1103615765444358144)
- Getting overly worked up by someone else’s tacky bad take is also tacky  You see where I’m going with this?  Which isn’t to say you should excuse cruelty or injustice  But tackiness can be recognised & avoided while you focus on what matters you  Ok night! May ur aesthetics shine
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2019-03-02 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101901435652911104)
- “I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed...” - Marco Polo, on his deathbed, 1324 https://x.com/visakanv/status/1033610543221760005?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2019-01-29 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090116685145620480)
- Not only is the public miseducated, it also has a coordination problem
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2019-02-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1097688049012506624)
- John Little branded itself as "the Finest Store East of Suez", which is a rather revealing choice. Why would a Singaporean market care about being "East of Suez"? It was for the European dollar, in Singapore. To be Asian is to have yourself defined in relation to the West
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-09-19 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042483186607906816)
- Rewatching La Casa De Papel, aka Money Heist [2017], which is my go-to answer for “what’s your favorite non-English TV show”. Super well-written, killer pacing, amazing use of flashbacks, great characters and chemistry. I’m such a sucker for heist shows. Looking forward to S3
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2019-02-12 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095303059700211712)
- This is an interesting shot that ended up on National Geographic's cover in August 1999. "The young lady, portrayed with her traditionally clad mom, was, at the time, a star of India’s version of MTV."  Does anybody recognize her?  https://t.co/BDlHQmvWFc
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2019-02-03 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1092130998635151360)
- Today’s celebrity fanclub twitter is tomorrow’s political organizer twitter
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-11-04 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1059160047769374720)
- 8. Roman Mars on the design of city flags – some are great, many are terrible, and most are a wasted opportunity for cities to rally around a great local identity, for people to feel good about. "In every bad flag, there's a good flag trying to get out." https://x.com/visakanv/status/859008304730619904
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-11-30 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068436081421348864)
- That said, it’s actually a pretty good way of getting a sort of crowdsourced fingertip-feel for the insides of books
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2019-01-02 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1080393523608711168)
- Website theme sites are fascinating, they're like web tropes. There's actually such a small number of patterns in the way we express and identify ourselves
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-03-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/978097255876972544)
- 8. Gang Leader For A Day, Sudhir Venkatesh. I finished this in a day. Very poignant, troubling true story. I was moved and felt changed when I put it down. Confidently waltzes onto my recommend list https://x.com/visakanv/status/957491354652721152
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-01-28 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/957646706056740865)
- Day 5, my last day in India (for this trip!) woke up to have breakfast in our Trichy hotel. It’s interesting how hotels around the world (well - around Asia, afaik) have the same “format” while each of course having their own local specialties and flavours represented
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-12-07 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1070937076432949248)
- “''Die Hard'' is not a film for children, nor is it a film for adults. Instead it's a movie for that new, true-blue American of the electronic age, the kidult, who may be 8, 18, 38 or 80.” – New York Times, 1988 https://t.co/Tnv1JYDe0K
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-07-16 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1018751645545451520)
- To some degree, minority ethnic identity is about creating a safe space that is relatively-illegible to the mainstream spaces that force compromise. The hijab, the bindi, biryani parties, etc are all ways of saying, this is our way of being, for ourselves and for each other
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-09-01 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035749833825386496)
- @CaptainNibster Sure, why not! aside, I actually believe that being deliberately silly, weird, odd and “bad” sometimes gets us closer to good work than *trying* too hard to “do good work”, which can be limiting (too “serious”, chokes the life out of things, gets stodgy and boring)
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-08-11 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1028142746194694150)
- @danlistensto @vgr George Carlin had a joke about this
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-02-18 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/965067906626170881)
- @rivatez I believe the core insight you have to appreciate to understand it is that there is a social cost to fighting for ambitious weirdness. most people only like ambitious weirdness after-the-fact, when it's delivered results. normalization = people getting tired of fighting for weird
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2017-12-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/944517611466788864)
- @andreisavu @vgr What do you mean? Like, how do I try and stay minimally interesting while getting pruny skin from overstaying in the opiate-streams of paycheck life? Lol.
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-03-28 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/978810913217118208)
- I'm watching The Toys That Made Us on Netflix and tearing up at all these stories about toymakers. I feel similarly about filmmakers, storytellers, game developers... there's a truth about myself here that I ought to pay more attention to. There's a purity here that's refreshing
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-01-16 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/953286422781308928)
- The Freud Wars, Wilson and Zarate (2002)
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2018-01-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/956170355147554816)
- articulating a healthy masculinity:  a man should be sensitive, smart and strong  he should use these skills to nurture and encourage others  https://x.com/visakanv/status/591230884449124353
  (resurfaced 2× · 7 likes · 2017-12-10 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/939820184717504512)
- @nosilverv it's just an anecdote, a few mins long  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xYO-VMZUGo
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2020-10-03 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1312423664101457920)
- Oh this is an easy one; repeal 377A. archaic, backward, homophobic bullshit  https://x.com/079ue76l2mz1p8/status/1154505318430154753
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2019-07-25 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1154505953879842816)
- nice pic showing different pollinator/flower fit, and some interesting points about variables that select for certain pollinators – insects see ultraviolet better than red, wind-pollinated flowers have no pressure to be pretty...
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2022-03-08 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1501097928089161732)
- “All man’s history is an endeavour to shatter his loneliness.” – Norman Cousins  “Perhaps the reader can recall the anxiety which swept over us like a tidal wave when the first atom bomb exploded over Hiroshima… we sensed our grave danger that we might be the last generation…”
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2022-01-27 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1486648698473893889)
- My comments section is a lovely place
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2020-07-28 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1288015299489406978)
- just learned via @patriotact that William Howard Taft's (POTUS27) great-great-grandnephew Dudley Taft is a rock musician. The lyrics are kinda corny but his lead playing is pretty legit  https://www.instagram.com/dudleytaft/
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2020-05-27 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1265594545841991680)
- @RonenV I am always subtweeting everything at all times
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2020-12-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1335835460883468288)
- There’s a lot of interesting details about Sagan’s parents, and of the times they lived through. The war-mad 1910s, the money-mad 1920s, the bleak Great Depression of the ‘30s. Keay spends some time talking about Freud, Einstein, the Jewish people.
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2018-11-28 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1067772075102748673)
- Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option.
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2011-02-01 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/32392582994591744)
- (Learning, pls correct me) So the heart itself is a pump that relies on electrical impulses to keep beating. These impulses come from within, from the sinoatrial node. When adrenaline is secreted into the bloodstream, there are receptors (?!) in the heart that ++ impulse rate?
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2018-04-16 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/985700842509549568)
- 033: CRISIS!  now's the time to be a little crazy – whatever it is that you've been resisting, holding back – whatever it is you've been wanting to say, do, try – as long as you're not hurting anybody else – do it! do it! do it! or not. it's up to you  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_JngWE4Mpw
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2020-04-03 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1245984340036562945)
- (^ also interesting to kinda-sorta appreciate how stress makes some people gain weight and other people lose weight – seems to depend on whether you go into adrenal fatigue)
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2020-02-20 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1230416384636571648)
- @RichDecibels I sometimes joke that I love myself too much to be a narcissist. 🥰 Narcissism is a fixation on a certain aspect of the self, a certain image, affect, story. It’s a lot more fun to play & experiment & screw around. If you embody a playful spirit, you’ll get bored of narcissism
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2019-12-31 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1211943190992834560)
- Watching Murder Mystery, 13+ minutes and enjoying it 😂 2 for 2 I love Jennifer Aniston in this sort of role (she was also great in Office Christmas Party). What *is* this role? Family conflict / drama
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2019-06-17 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1140519639748771841)
- “Lol Visa, you could just have filmed like, 20 pullups. How do we know that was actually your 500th pullup?”  You can count them yourself:  https://www.instagram.com/1000.pullups
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2019-06-29 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145049111965470720)
- Oh interesting, I love this sort of detail – the first prototype of the Dunhill Unique lighter was allegedly mounted on a Colman's mustard tin. Looks believable
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2019-04-07 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114888901896757253)
- @verohecko https://t.co/8qCNhLmbQ1
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2019-06-06 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1136672883042709504)
- Lewis Thomas once described how the Marine Biological Laboratory was a sort of living organism – "internally, the important institutional decisions seem to have been made by a process of accommodation and adaption, with resistable forces always meeting movable objects." Big mood
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2019-04-08 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1115296482511339521)
- Just finished playing A Way Out, a 2 player co-op only game by @HazelightGames. The gameplay is fairly straightforward, and the story isn’t *groundbreaking*, but I really enjoyed it. Well put together. Has some great moments. I recommend it. Solid work from a small studio
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2019-08-08 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1159481340275806209)
- @brianluidog Not quite what I’m talking about; thanks for the opportunity to clarify. I’m talking about people who seem like they almost have magical powers
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2019-06-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1138261162133340160)
- Better explanation of how smokers use cigarettes to self-regulate blood sugar levels  If low blood sugar feels like not enough oxygen... can excess oxygen... diminish feelings of low blood sugar...? I’m guessing probably not,,, but, https://t.co/TuYhj9Jm5e
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2019-06-07 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1137070136928563200)
- I think teenagers might be my favorite people. They're so full of possibility, experiencing so much change and tension and excitement
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2016-08-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/762530181261107200)
- Me: I’m a dumbass  This guy: you’re a dumbass  Me: https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106879515450458112
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2019-03-16 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106879713304182786)
- Where do we start? How about "Scottish whisky"? For starters, turns out there are over a HUNDRED whisky distilleries in Scotland. Wow. I have also tried Macallan, Glenmorangie, Glenlivet, Lagavulin, Bowmore... that's less that 5% of all the whiskies. Wild. Why so much whisky? 🥃
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2019-04-05 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114167034558861313)
- 2018 Recap Thread (To be sung along to the tune of We Didn't Start The Fire)  🎶...  1. People eating tide pods, Youtube idiot Logan Paul China clones some monkeys while in Syria people die
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2018-12-18 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075072039537393665)
- @okohonen @TricksyRaccoon Not exactly. Rather, you loosely define the play area, then allow the mind to play. You keep meticulous notes on the mind’s play. Over time there will be patterns, and the solution is revealed in the pattern(s). Like a desire path you can’t predict. It has to be played out
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2019-02-07 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093623674609983488)
- @karlnieb Haymakers' Way Silver River Way of the Birds The Snake Of The Skies The Route of Scattered Straw Way of the Gray Goose Ganges of the Aether Fish Jumping In Shadows The Road of the Warriors The Fair Cow's Path The White Mare's Tail Dragon's River  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_for_the_Milky_Way
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2019-02-03 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1092067137378672640)
- I do love that there's such a sombre atmosphere on Twitter, that people are being respectful and sensitive. It's a good sign, to me.
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2011-03-11 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/46181251312394240)
- Just woke up from a school dream - a recurring variant of a low-grade kafkaesque nightmare of being punished by teachers. It’s been a decade since I was a student but I still get these dreams every few months or so. Very uncool, subconscious mind
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2018-10-05 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048357027058081792)
- just discovered that TV Tropes has tropes about gay men archetypes
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2018-05-22 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998814876054175747)
- @risamish @ArmaanAgrawal5 @farnamstreet There is a dark side to this: malicious sociopaths who are aware of Hanlon’s razor know to feign incompetence when confronted
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2018-12-19 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075487359662120960)
- Planescape Torment quotes  "Fear names. Names have power in identity. Others can use names as weapons. Names are a hook that can be used to track you ... Remain nameless, and you shall be safe. I am the Nameless One." — Inscription in the Tomb of the Nameless One
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2018-02-26 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/968050192523018240)
- Watching Mohammed Amer on Netflix and, again, fascinated and inspired by the charisma and intelligence of all these kids caught in cultural crossfires
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2018-10-09 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1049532591219437568)
- Morning thoughts, the thread  1. School life vs military life https://x.com/visakanv/status/1049516227083698177?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2018-10-11 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1050263898568310784)
- Cleaning out my paper notes this afternoon and this cat has no respect
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2018-09-08 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1038330063438020608)
- Funnily, this can be framed as  tired: give more of a fuck  wired: give less of a fuck
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2018-09-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039631208324321280)
- The village idiot collapses on the jungle floor. Hungry, wet, cold. It dawns on him that survival is the whole point. "So... cheesy..."
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2015-05-21 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/601412135135023104)
- My wife is playing music on her phone and I'm thinking about how certain songs (hallelujah, time after time) are like subreddits and hashtags that travel across space and time, promethean fireplaces that provide comfort and warmth, from lovers long gone to those not yet born https://x.com/visakanv/status/911246352889274369
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2018-01-24 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/956172644264558592)
- I will manage this effectively!
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2010-12-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/17917789943631873)
- Contemplating the phenomenon of clutter from a data/information perspective. Begin with the common refrain "I have nothing to wear/read/do."
  (resurfaced 2× · 6 likes · 2015-12-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/680695506683572224)
- dec2023 subscriber AMA, ask me anything https://x.com/visakanv/status/1719787861862695218
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2023-12-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1731440204165308824)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=PVv4s9MPmXBWz-zR&v=zzNsC_aklkU&feature=youtu.be
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2024-03-30 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1773971401336324273)
- you've never met anybody like me and so you cannot conceive of someone like me. I get it. let's follow up in 5 years, 10 years, 20 years and let me know what you think then. you know where to find me  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1365511775114854403
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2021-03-31 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1377237276711735298)
- what a sentence 😂 my man bertie read plato's republic, joined a debating society and started thinking about reforming society  the late 1800s were a heady and exciting time to be alive before WW1, Spanish Flu, etc. Science & tech advancements just kept happening– electricity...
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2021-01-09 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347934884380037121)
- @mattwensing a slightly morbid thought that I find amusing/helpful/enjoyable in a twisted way: corpses are perfectly relaxed. imagine ur dead
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2020-12-15 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1338713747737567233)
- Yes I'm literally saying imagine a Chinese state called California, with a city called #bitcoin
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2019-07-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1148519167709990914)
- yes
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2020-11-24 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331191945440366594)
- 9. Eve Ensler's 2004 talk about her journey as The Vagina Monologues lady. After every show she did, women would line up to tell her about the horrors they experienced. This bit stuck with me forever: it was by *helping others* that she saved *herself* https://www.ted.com/talks/eve_ensler_happiness_in_body_and_soul?language=en&view=transcript
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2018-11-30 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068437511326711808)
- @aaronzlewis Understanding Comics by @scottmccloud , Chapter 4, page 13. Highly, highly recommend
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2020-01-24 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1220731025166426112)
- @malnote this is shaping up to be one of the better conversations I've had
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2019-11-05 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1191673794340868097)
- @Saurya or maybe you know something that you don’t
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2019-08-20 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1163668620599164928)
- And tbh I don’t think this makes me a better person. We are all human, we all have human needs, frustrations. If I’m being perfectly honest, my ethics is derived from my desire for good peers more than any profound insight or honourable impulse https://x.com/visakanv/status/1004559829384376320?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2019-01-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086909398440599558)
- @ShreyKeny would like to travel to at least one other major city to meet friends. would be cool to do both India (probably Bengaluru + Delhi) and NYC before my 30th if possible. And lots of writing to do. I'd like to finish @1000wordvomits
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2019-06-05 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1136195182192291840)
- environment is important  ~1700s, british govt offered ~$3m for clock that kept accurate time on a ship  the rocking of the ship, barometric pressure, gravity, etc all conspire to ruin regular clock readings  John Harrison spent 40 years solving this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2018-12-19 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075330772121223169)
- “70s NYC - capital of the world, abandoned by the grownups, left to anybody who had the balls to live there. Rap in the city, punk downtown. There was no nightlife - either go to the movies or see a live music act. Everybody came out in droves.” “Nobody wanted to hear originals”
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2019-02-26 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1100283810459963398)
- Damn, 1992 was a SICK year for music and the world didn't fully realize it at the time  billboard top 100 that year  32: teen spirit 39: bohemian rhapsody 60: u2's one 71: friday I'm in love 100: I can't make you love me, bonnie raitt
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2018-07-24 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1021660329070092288)
- I think Zenefits' turnaround under David Sacks will be one for the history/business books. https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/747898415913177089
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2016-07-01 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/748751132650905600)
- everything in the game is about X growing stronger  You the player are motivated to defeat Vile, who made you personally feel helpless  You find the armor, you beat the enemies. You feel connected to the hero. You get to repay your mentor’s favor and rescue HIM from Vile
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2018-12-09 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071647605145296898)
- been thinking lately about how I have a habit of using words like "absolutely", "definitely", "certainly" about things that are hardly absolute, definite or certain
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2018-12-17 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074597316068167681)
- In a way, the history of humanity is a history of humiliation(s)
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2017-11-09 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/928490181644054529)
- I remember this guy, and I still think about him. He just seemed really whip-smart, alert, attentive, aware, focused, effective, efficient, articulate. A guy working at Subway. https://x.com/visakanv/status/367246163394568192
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2018-08-04 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1025776789551964165)
- @moniza_hossain i reliably enjoy the trope where a straight-laced goodperson accidentally gets high or drunk by accident and tries to be responsible about it but is like oh dear me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miCDPzJHvjk
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2018-10-14 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1051584495508279296)
- About a year later I'm still a fan of Juventus's brand refresh. Very clever, useful, intuitive https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_and_identity_for_juventus_by_interbrand.php
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2017-12-23 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/944646201114161153)
- @Armonah_ @priya_ebooks There's a quote I think about a lot: how domestic abusers say "they weren't thinking", but typically have some line they won't cross (which demonstrates they mostly have an internalized system of what's an acceptable level of abuse to inflict on their partners)
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2017-11-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/934770903119884289)
- Does anybody know why Japanese folks put eggplants in their Twitter handles?
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2017-07-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/890216405689180160)
- Imagine a band called "Your Childhood Dreams" that cancels all its shows.
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2015-04-16 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/588549005547704320)
- Let's do a thread about my life through video games! Always meant to write an essay about it but it's impt to me so I've been putting it off
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2017-09-09 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/906564933873106946)
- @1000wordvomits 9. Boredom is a bug of the mind (usually tired mind seeking hyperoptimal solution in cluttered space with unclear utility-values)
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2017-06-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/878325572308393984)
- me: i have an original idea!  narrator: it was not an original idea
  (resurfaced 2× · 5 likes · 2017-06-16 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/875600403626287104)
- “And so Shuman and his predecessors, and all their inventions, slipped into the shadows of a profound and long-lasting obscurity.”
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2019-06-30 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145377221332234240)
- @RonenV It’s a Calvin & Hobbes reference!
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2022-04-03 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1510428495159050241)
- What it's like to be the tallest person you know, a picture series
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2017-09-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/913086052364980224)
- 55. Jackson Pollock paintings. These are maps to me 😂 https://www.jackson-pollock.org/jackson-pollock-paintings.jsp
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2018-12-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071714047639269378)
- @glowascii idk I just google image searched "marble bust cyberpunk" or something like that  first one seems to be by a russian artist called bashta  second by... viktoria karnauhova? also russian, interesting  and the last one is... a lamp!! also from Russia!!!
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2021-08-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1431655732512841732)
- 341am and I can’t sleep so I’m dumping my brain onto my whiteboard. These are things I think I’m going to write about in the coming days. Happy to take requests/suggestions! (Half of it probably doesn’t make sense outside my head atm)
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2018-07-18 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1019668964853420032)
- the siren
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2019-01-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082876780334088197)
- I think so too! You can follow my progress here. I’m hoping to publish it as an ebook next month: @introspectVV
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2018-11-16 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1063338107754307584)
- @punkarelly Eckhart Tolle: 'I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.'
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2020-02-15 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1228631080623689728)
- @RadaNotSay Making this up as I go, let’s say professionals are at about 200 skill points, and 100 puts you at serious hobbyist- good enough to be mistaken for professional by 50% of casual laypersons
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2020-11-02 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1323153334430126080)
- @IonaItalia Dorothy Parker, 1945
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2019-10-16 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1184459623689928706)
- He still dreams about being on a ship, the rumble of the engines and the rolling of the waves rocking the hull. The dreams often end with the ship running aground, & him wishing he stayed out at sea. Quite an intimate thing for an Admiral to share with some random reader. ❤❤❤
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2018-04-14 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/985030021722005504)
- #newprofilepic
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2020-02-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1232608672276070402)
- Norse: Prose Edda: Frost Giant Ymir, created man and woman from his sweaty left armpit, and family of Frost Giants. Three grandsons(?) – Vili Ve and Odin. Theme of dad-hating. Killed him and used his body to make the world. Skull-sky here too. Rainbow bridges.
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2018-04-15 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/985391550107533312)
- @mwotton @amayoco @sharanvkaur ahahah uh... let's say she's gotten like some sort of solo travel gig as a travel writer or blogger or something
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2020-02-05 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1225084781563506689)
- Guru Nanak was born (and founded Sikhism) during Leonardo Da Vinci's time – though they were in different parts of the world and probably would not have heard of each other https://x.com/visakanv/status/984619999988891649
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2018-06-09 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1005312382355193856)
- @ckhonson hahahahaha  fair enough, within your framework this is correct  the problem is that your framework is likely wrong, but you'll find this out the hard way  I wish you well all the same; I hope you succeed at whatever you're up to
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2017-11-13 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/930000711982575616)
- @Malcolm_Ocean @alifeofmovement @utotranslucence @vgr @SarahAMcManus @Conaw @context_ing @TheAnnaGat I tweet “naked” too, yeah. One thing I do like having is this “list of threads” generator that @mwichary made, but I don’t really “use” it - just good to know it’s there if I wanna look for something: https://visakanv.github.io/threads/
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2019-06-08 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1137214429169311744)
- the most offensive thing about mass effect andromeda to me is that they didn't let you kick the villain in the dick. you play for what, 70, 80 hours, building up to this moment... and he just falls and drops dead. wtf is this??? I don't feel bad spoiling this for you, it sucks
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2019-03-23 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1109399068889890816)
- @SubtleBodhi The Big Bang is really a Cosmic Fart
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2019-03-18 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1107568167201595392)
- Morning! I’m increasingly convinced that I avoid sleeping, maybe subconsciously, partially bc my dreams consistently seem to take me to terrible places 🤔 probably tightest bottleneck in my life rn. That I am somehow sleep-averse. It’s like being a picky eater all over again
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2019-02-15 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096260332773728256)
- @BuucketHe4d the difference is,,, i'm good at it
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2019-02-22 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1099008218385211392)
- @polytrophic 1. curious  Alts: busybody, irreverent, naughty, voyeur, amused, spelunking, remixing, threading, nerd, weirdo, prosocial, anti-asshole  Demonstrate: being a nerd can be wholesome and fun
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2019-01-05 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1081678654411657216)
- @EricJorgenson It's the yin/yang thing at the heart of life... you could say that handling that tension = being alive.  > “Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.” ― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2017-11-28 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/935351658510368769)
- Just watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - it’s interesting to observe how John Hughes has all these motifs and tropes that he reuses in all of his shows. I didn’t really enjoy it much; I think it’s one of those things you get more value from if you watch it when you’re younger
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2018-12-15 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073969814744506368)
- h/t @kyalbr jack out here looking like some sort of walmart kratos in a nu-metal band
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2018-09-05 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1037346546222751748)
- Really enjoyed this TED talk about the design of city flags: https://www.ted.com/talks/roman_mars_why_city_flags_may_be_the_worst_designed_thing_you_ve_never_noticed
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2017-05-01 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/859008304730619904)
- Dinner tonight is one of my favs that I have maybe 3-5 times a year - sambal stingray (and BBQ wings, and satay). Greasy and spicy. One of life's joys
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2017-12-16 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/942031288478740482)
- I want to do a thread about how lesbian NSFW art is so much more lovingly erotic and lush than crude cishet NSFW art... is that okay?
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2017-10-30 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/924903335177740288)
- One day I'm going to do a word vomit that goes over 9000. That will be a great day. Today was a good day. Goodnight folks.
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2013-08-20 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/369844979285254144)
- life is a pattern in space and time rather than a material object
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2011-09-03 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/110020450142265344)
- btw @fortelabs I was thinking about @mbabwahsingh's work again recently and I thought you'd appreciate his work on Visual Thinking. Michael I think you'd be interested in Tiago's work too  https://t.co/cT3gFqhCjb
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2018-02-08 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/961538543955820549)
- Do you ever think about how sexy things are described as naughty, bad, and dirty by people who love them AND people who hate them? Exact same set of words but used in different contexts with very different intended interpretations. Could even be the same person channeling both
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2017-12-22 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/944225598754275330)
- @vgr I was delighted to learn that the root word of "bureaucracy" is "desk". Poetic to say civilization = turning the brutish into bureaucratic
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2017-08-20 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/899186841089331200)
- Been watching Brooklyn 99 and I'm being reminded of Mass Effect. "It's like if ME were a sitcom," I find myself thinking. What do they have in common?  Character development. It's what I think we really appreciate in all good narratives
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2018-02-27 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/968516834122018817)
- I've created a private/secret Facebook group for business owners – let me know if you'd like to be in it! It's all about biz owners sharing their personal struggles and helping each other out. Entrepreneurship is lonely but we can be lonely together! 🤓
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2018-04-27 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/989866249562734592)
- @sehurlburt Meet Sierra and Little https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2017-12-28 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/946267079606386689)
- Doing this again today! It's even better the second time around. No headache this time. Hunger is mild and manageable. Gonna keep going https://x.com/visakanv/status/922642163535568896
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2017-10-30 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/924940888144470017)
- I once saw a marketing guy interrupt his series of scheduled buffered posts and retweets to share that his father had died.
  (resurfaced 2× · 4 likes · 2015-05-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/601583224314200064)
- @trippinreadyy i'd aggressively post more cringe. do more comedy, live music, put on acts, youtube skits, etc. generally experiment harder and louder and more boldly with identity and presentation and arguments
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2024-07-10 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1811092636268384477)
- @NoahTopper also similar persistent fictions https://x.com/visakanv/status/1320928669611618305
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2023-07-07 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1677423159321169920)
- @gnopercept Have the other set! 🤣
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2022-08-09 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1556838665317281793)
- 2021 book thread
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2021-11-26 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1464150323824513032)
- @WeftOfSoul I usually do sth like this if I’m a little more awake/intentional
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2022-04-12 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1513762350968426496)
- Jan 2022:  - worked on @introspectVV - read Rollo May's Man's Search For Himself (gd!) - watched Encanto - beer and boat noodles with friends - hosted ~weekly ii casual chats - went on coffintalk and ii podcasts  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1477212321457999872
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2022-04-03 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1510669012291624962)
- desire paths are my new favourite concept
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2013-02-11 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/300802360194760704)
- Mid-afternoon Dysphoria  5/100  (I thought this one was unexpectedly beautiful - I seemed to get some sort of bug in the middle- see if you can spot it- and/but I worked it into the song.)
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2021-04-15 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1382777477659987968)
- @Aryeh___ Laika best girl 😭🐕
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2020-05-30 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1266823202786824193)
- 5 invites to the chaos chamber https://discord.com/invite/bhSa6Y
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2020-09-19 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1307233662937657344)
- 018: PUBLIC LIFE!  - how intellectuals create public - what hayley williams taught me - what is one true friend worth? - narcissist PR works bc we can’t shut up about it - publics are tyrannised by assholes who retaliate excessively - learn to coordinate  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxZQ5ZD7OPM
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2020-02-14 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1228272177855680512)
- a freckle of frames
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2019-11-08 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1192846758944002048)
- @PhadkeTai Vikisan Vikasan Vasikan Visakin Vakasan . . . [84 more results]
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2018-12-31 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1079672216416018433)
- @EbonykKing I am drugs
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2019-04-07 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114970487690420224)
- And just finished 1. The Uncharted series succeeds in a way that the Tomb Raider games fail to - and I think, apart from the massive set pieces and incredible action sequences, what it really does right is *character*. *Relationships*. *Story*. I want to really understand this
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2019-09-04 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1169296876488708096)
- Looks like there are over 100 results for Ship Chandlery in Singapore, which makes sense given all the ships just hanging out all the time
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2019-02-17 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096946901805481989)
- At 144/1000 and I need to take a day or two off, or I’m going to break the skin and have to take several days off
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2019-01-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087983708978757632)
- ... does anybody in SF have a phone charger, my power bank is out of juice
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2019-05-08 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1125934827763523585)
- @nicholatian To see what it’s like
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2019-04-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1120587724547710976)
- @lordcataplanga @stefinmotion @sharanvkaur @priya_ebooks Just,,, imagine being a mother with post-partum depression and seeing the disproportionate response. Dozens of mums kill themselves https://t.co/vmTrmFDfyP
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2019-03-12 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1105458123433635840)
- OK anyway on to the sauce!!! Who started making sauce? When did sauce become... "condimentized"? How is it produced industrially? Why does McDonald's give you packets of it? How did this Mexican spicy berry make its way across the world into a tiny packet on my table?
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2019-02-11 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095030925677621248)
- @hikikomorphism I am,,, the joke dissecter
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2019-02-08 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093920255171125250)
- 😩😭😰🤧
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2018-12-09 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071678805993938944)
- @djmicrobeads @ckhonson @hikikomorphism @olivertraldi i saw someone's twitter cover photo say something like "fuck communism, it's never helped women or minorities, it's just for wealthy kids to use as conversation fodder, to drink wine and get laid", and in that moment I respected communism
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2019-01-04 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1081246677829267457)
- @vgr I'm not a Burner, but this installation does move me – Love, by Alexander Milov. Something poetic about it being burned down, too iirc
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2017-08-13 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/896613672000212993)
- I'm particularly interested in Indian symbols and iconography – it's interesting how shapes (particularly the mango teardrop shape – paisleys?) can imply culture, context. See also: shapes of eyes, curves, flowers, motifs
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2018-08-01 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1024468365182554113)
- SEO, content marketer, growth hacker, growth marketer, performance marketer... people keep inventing new labels because old ones get bloated https://x.com/JimCallender/status/885579576142909440
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2017-07-14 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/885872220538519552)
- @chenoehart The system that works for me best right now is an oddly primitive system of copy pasting links into Notes with some preamble about what it’s about and why I find it interesting
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2018-12-15 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074028558157135873)
- oh interesting (more than half say no). I feel like he'd win. because he's cool 😂 I'd bet like S$50 bucks that he would win. yeah i'm ignorant and naive
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2018-10-19 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1053372702864461824)
- Lmao this is really a thing (I found it by just searching “Lebanon” in Twitter search) https://x.com/sturgeons_law/status/934942962353455104
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2018-09-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1041777116101005313)
- "The contentiousness of the US media is like American wrestling. You know it's a sham but people enjoy it because it's a sham." – LKY, 1984
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2017-08-08 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/894796821666480128)
- Really liked this 14m video talking about the historical context of the politics of video games; like all good works it also hints at parallels to all sorts of other things - culture wars, apologetics, reframing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a13R4qbRJr4&feature=youtu.be
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2018-07-14 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1018063310615293952)
- Just gave a 1.5 hr lecture to SMU students about ecommerce marketing... Was really nervous but I think they liked it. feelsgoodman.jpg
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2015-03-25 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/580719557637234688)
- @alexmegami Interestingly I think my wife is like... Rosa on the outside and Amy on the inside. A Rosa interface with an Amy operating system
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2018-06-27 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1011782775270076416)
- @KellynnWee there is a sort of radical candor dynamic at play here
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2018-01-03 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/948489505958330369)
- The phrase "managing your muse" just entered my mind, while thinking about motivation and willpower as a dance partner. It's so ridiculous
  (resurfaced 2× · 3 likes · 2017-11-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/927603635105644544)
- @AlmostMedia @seyitaylor @anothercohen hearst and pulitzer pretty much set off the spanish-american war with their speculative profiteering bullshit  the phrase "robber baron" didn't come out of nowhere  c'mon we are not the first people in human history to be a bunch of degenerates
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2022-05-03 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1521565727630962688)
- @sadalsvvd @pragueyerrr hm
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2021-06-22 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1407391521175851011)
- 074: taste  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9IRhdE7yM8
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2020-08-27 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1299080821546999808)
- @saturnsview @default_friend cc @made_in_cosmos @maybegray mystic gang
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2020-01-26 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1221493789396627456)
- @clarkformaths It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a penis, must be in want of an audience  https://x.com/visakanv/status/974891484968185856
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2019-11-05 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1191662891608395776)
- @djmicrobeads yup, especially when it comes with strong social pressure that it's going to make/break you for life, and that failure means disappointing/dishonoring your family and community who have made tremendous sacrifice for you + expect you to pay them back for it with success
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2019-11-02 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1190566022870253568)
- pretty good!! They taste kinda like those Girl Scout mint cookies
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2019-10-03 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1179696597652791296)
- @vgr Begone from my sermon, ye madman loon with your alluring alternative tales. Guards, seize him
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2018-05-09 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994027795670941699)
- @JALoughney @EmmaJP9_ @webdevMason MOTH MOTHER
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2019-07-22 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153253296372510721)
- @ckhonson @hikikomorphism @olivertraldi 🤔....  ... depends on how you frame it 😅
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2019-01-04 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1081234859807240192)
- @djmicrobeads you are hereby released from the responsibility of enjoying yourself
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2018-11-02 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1058442186696474624)
- @fortelabs some quick thoughts on creativity (i could go on for hours):
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2016-12-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/814028766326366208)
- @blissfulchar @vgr seeing "virtuosity" and "management" in the same phrase immediately brings Benjamin Zander to mind, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic orchestra – if you haven't seen his TED talk I think you'd like it! https://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_the_transformative_power_of_classical_music
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2018-09-02 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1036269134013718528)
- Today’s morning thought is about routines, habits, behavior patterns. Hit the gym yesterday because I felt angry and wanted to be stronger. When I woke up I found myself making my bed, which is something I don’t do super consistently. Reflecting on past habits & their stickiness https://x.com/visakanv/status/1050269384894107648
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2018-10-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1050618121059332097)
- Repeated prophesy of Son overthrowing/killing Father. Cronus was nervous about his kids. Incest very common in cosmology. He swallowed his kids! His wife Rhea was not thrilled about this. She snuck off to Crete and gave birth to Zeus + handed him to grandma Gaia
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2018-04-15 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/985391545623826433)
- "In any community, those who prioritize primal belongingness will eventually wrest control from those who prioritize primal curiosity." https://x.com/vgr/status/883433138042556416
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2017-07-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/883546238947278852)
- 7. @SarahTaber_bww. Dr. Taber is so smart & knows so much stuff. She's really good at articulating what she knows. Fantastic storyteller, super-compelling, you'll learn so much. Do you care about corn roots? Now you do! Following her is a fun exciting trip https://x.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1027388649434832896
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2018-08-10 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1027855371551956993)
- Nonsense as a more palatable (and effective?) substitute to censorship: http://t.co/1IysfpSi66
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2015-07-17 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/621942013005426688)
- I am here to build an army.
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2013-04-23 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/326658026029330433)
- the quest for a contemporary continues
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2011-03-07 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/44819638961455104)
- It’s so tragically poetic that Chris Kyle - who seemed like such a kind, respectful person - was shot dead by a disturbed veteran. Makes me really sad to think about it. He seemed like a good, honorable man who cared about others. He deserved better 😕 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiVDtNjORbY&feature=youtu.be
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2018-06-02 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1002955036274511872)
- no, @realDonaldTrump, the world is laughing at you.  Source: the world
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2012-11-07 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/266046774651797504)
- @neogrognorian Positioning is framing. About determining how the world (you, your team, the media, your customers, your competitors) are going to perceive your product. About defining the parameters on which your product will be compared. About isolating the qualities that differentiate you
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2017-12-13 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/941073956601176064)
- List of my favorite people to follow on Twitter https://x.com/visakanv/status/941741538106793984
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2017-12-15 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/941751703728041984)
- 1. Top 25 most revolutionary products/innovations in human history and the conditions/contexts/people that made them. (Surely this exists?)
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2017-05-28 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/868668183460290560)
- The more I think about it– there is a TON of wisdom baked into David Ogilvy's "Make your thinking as funny as possible" directive.
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2015-01-28 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/560334965645139968)
- Irrationally angry at the idiocy on r/singapore. Why would you downvote someone for asking someone else to explain themselves? Ugh.
  (resurfaced 2× · 2 likes · 2014-05-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/462450557743923200)
- @AdmiralOPG oh, something like this is probably the right scale – ebooks. only published FAN v1.0 so far, March 2020. hopefully INTROSPECT v1.0 in a few days  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1271045725837602816
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2020-09-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1309249553103818752)
- I appear to have stumbled upon a snail orgy
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2017-06-21 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/877498846514864132)
- The danger of relying on super-dominant forces such as the PAP: http://wp.me/p1tdL2-Cu #sgelections
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2011-04-30 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/64317689639862272)
- Headcanon accepted RT "@PaulAnnett: Today my eldest asked me if the Barclays logo is the Twitter bird's dad. http://t.co/0ob98KHVl6"
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2014-11-23 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/536407337552994306)
- "When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives – nationalism, religion, ethnicity – it seems to me that a 35-pound bag of rocks, and the lost world it represents, is not such a bad thing to die for." https://t.co/YIuHl6xxpg
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2018-01-25 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/956521439984730115)
- Now I'm thinking about news cycles and how we have the same conversations over and over and over again, in reliable, predictable patterns
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2016-04-30 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/726338667870998529)
- @michaelhazani “A group of Angels with a desire for greater glory wish to join you. Do you accept?”
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2018-09-01 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035789244583698432)
- @ScienceOMFG if you're okay with the conversion then yes, done! (US$36)
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2018-10-19 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1053375585320235008)
- @jacobs_cellar I really don’t think it’s the money
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2019-04-23 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1120547032131883008)
- Crossed 500 followers. Love you allz
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2013-04-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/323015142054952960)
- Yondu Udonta, we will see you in the stars
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2019-03-18 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1107509992947499008)
- @nianymue I just search myself, yeah https://x.com/visakanv/status/1036419523933392896?s=21
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2018-11-18 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064287093692620800)
- @priya_ebooks I just want the drink,,, to kick my ass
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2019-01-24 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088485396525113344)
- @priya_ebooks Been watching Modern Family recently – great show – and there's a moment where it's revealed that the mostly sweet, lovable white mom Claire, when she initially didn't like her dad's new Latina wife Gloria, and she tried to have her DEPORTED. The show plays this off for laughs
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2018-12-13 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073151190093815808)
- yo, i liked it! i wish tea leoni’s character had more depth, but i really really appreciate the perspective and relationship of the immigrant mom and her daughter, and the depictions of the frictions between well-meaning people of different socioeconomic status!
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2018-09-01 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035890194627481600)
- oh shit, wait, I'm wrong, sorry – it IS the carpark  damn  (also, lmao there's a singaporean carpark otaku youtube channel. of course there is) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1hOPbNJaB4
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2018-11-20 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064886987843403779)
- I like to try to keep words true to their origins & constructions of possible, so I prefer not to use “gratify” unless there is that element of grace to it. I think “gratify your taste” is a meaningful phrase. “That’s gratifying to hear” conveys “thank you for your grace”
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2018-10-07 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048955800796844037)
- one of my best tweets of all time, part of a thread that seems uncommonly good considering that it was just another morning commute ("trojan horse of convenience", etc)   https://x.com/visakanv/status/625509644765544448
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2018-08-04 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1025838814839730176)
- "Boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing boing."
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2015-05-22 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/601569947127394304)
- Did a bunch of pushups and squats this morning and feel so much better. I am truly a bag of chemicals.
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2014-01-28 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/428009104301248512)
- you belong anywhere you add value to. goodnight world <3
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2011-04-04 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/54981133984739328)
- So what are we going to do about the heat death of the universe?
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2013-12-05 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/408611702444269568)
- I keep getting emails from worried JC students who openly declare that they're lazy and unmotivated. What's at the root of this?
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2013-05-14 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/334275486001790976)
- @simpolism I had this elaborate mental model once of carving off a big iceberg-esque shelf, dragging it into a mind-warehouse, slowly running my hands over it in the dark and figuring out how to crack it open into meaningful parts and extract the resin from them then turn that into art
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2018-05-22 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998744051556888576)
- Everyone in Bangkok assumes I'm from India.
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2013-11-16 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/401702032458784769)
- my internet is being weird
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2012-02-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/169123720529575936)
- Feels good to return to Twitter when I'm taking a break from work and see nothing in my newsfeed. I'm going to go read something instead.
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2014-11-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/533973696654766080)
- There's an egoistic pride in this sort of thing. Look mommy I made a big smelly doo-doo. Feeling bad and perpetuating a theater of guilt and shame (and recruiting other actors to play with you) is easier than doing the unglamorous, gritty work of making amends and doing better https://x.com/BrandyLJensen/status/977180211686137856
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2018-03-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/977436574378991616)
- What would you most like to see me tweet more about? Reply if other / more specific requests
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2018-02-02 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/959348198044151808)
- I find myself thinking of the vast tradition of people across millennia being moved and deciding to make the effort to move others in turn
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2017-04-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/853779766603792384)
- #SomebodyShould remake the Born To be Wild music video with old people in motorized carts / wheelchairs
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2015-09-21 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/645804322568036352)
- FOLLOW THROUGH! The idea is there, what needs to be done is clear beyond any reasonable doubt, all you got to do now is to follow through
  (resurfaced 2× · 1 likes · 2010-08-31 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/22607208120)
- Christopher Alexander: "places which are comfortable... have no inner contradictions, because there is no little restlessness disturbing them. [...] do it carefully, with much attention"  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142452053697937409
  (resurfaced 2× · 0 likes · 2022-01-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1483005154886819843)
- @sonikudzu huxley: "every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he or she has been born"  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1465624716840894465
  (resurfaced 2× · 0 likes · 2023-01-01 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1609491305612333056)
- @PeterorjustP I wanted a symbolic representation of crown as simple as possible, and I like having “VV” in it so |VV|. Was vaguely familiar with Basquiat before- it’s not intended as a direct reference but I appreciate(?) / welcome the association
  (resurfaced 2× · 0 likes · 2021-04-10 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1380875939727351812)
- the matrix view of twitter occasionally reveals itself to me. I feel like I have about 80% clarity rn. (I never remember to tweet when I have 90-95% clarity).  I almost wanna say “turn it off, it’s too powerful”- but I look again and I am transfixed. It’s a superhuman system
  (resurfaced 2× · 0 likes · 2020-12-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1343097932426354688)
- I'm also still thinking about how important Izzy Stradlin and Steven Adler was to Guns N' Roses, and how I had no idea until I saw the band live without them. I went looking them up after, and they still have the sound!!
  (resurfaced 2× · 0 likes · 2018-03-30 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/979744578151448576)
- 1. Terranigma 2. Mass Effect 2 3. FF 6 & 7 4. The Last Of Us 5. Horizon Zero Dawn 6. Breath of Fire II 7. God of War 8. Borderlands 2 9. GTA: Vice City 10. Diablo II 11. Guilty Gear X2 12. Dragon Age: Origins 13. Street Fighter: 3rd Strike 14. Doom (2016) 15. Metal Slug X https://x.com/zachariusd/status/1108863223330033664
  (resurfaced 2× · 0 likes · 2019-03-26 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110441523823271936)
- I found Arrival to be a very disappointing, underwhelming movie. If you liked it, you should watch Contact [1997] and Memento [2000]
  (resurfaced 2× · 0 likes · 2017-01-28 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/825272266745262080)
- @human_residue damn,,, i have been owned
  (resurfaced 2× · 0 likes · 2019-02-06 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093215402094518272)
- @StefanMolyneux What's the secret of courage? 🤔
  (resurfaced 2× · 0 likes · 2017-07-05 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/882701721574621184)
- Facebook Timeline allows you to look through like, every message/post you've ever had. Fucking nostalgic
  (resurfaced 2× · 0 likes · 2011-12-16 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/147632476276277248)
- Every journalist makes value calls whether they like it or not, want to or not. This is obvious on hindsight; can be harder to see in the present moment.  I don't envy journalists, they have tough jobs + are subject to lots of pressure. But let's dispense with the fiction... 😜 https://x.com/elrabbit/status/934581323900993536
  (resurfaced 2× · 0 likes · 2017-11-27 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/934949783759872000)